Sheep ;
Then fleas ;
Let disease
Steep, then spread out—
Ebon : the death released .
Then fleas ;
Let disease
Steep, then spread out—
Ebon : the death released .
*[ WSB ].
Shrew[d] Taming
Easy ; she is not,
This saucy seesaw
Of seasonal feeling—
Pleasing; then reeling .
This saucy seesaw
Of seasonal feeling—
Pleasing; then reeling .
No discount of emotion,
But a reasoning counter
Is needed pacific,
To trim Atlantic tremors
From sea cracks unsealing ;
So that, Tsunami
Anomalies diminuendo
Their crustal crashing crescendos—
A tangle angled by window ;
Or : the wild winnowed .
*[ WSB ].
Can Tennessee Blue
Tennessee[n] too much tRumponomics :
A blueprint for Democrats
When the books are in a red hue .
To get back in black, bring the blue back—
True-tint citizens in chemostat
When I see Tennessee blue .
A blueprint for Democrats
When the books are in a red hue .
To get back in black, bring the blue back—
True-tint citizens in chemostat
When I see Tennessee blue .
*[ WSB ].
Sturgeon Moon
Ray-finned moon rises
Ancient from a great dark lake,
A cratered fossil
That briefly skims the surface
Then slides back into the deep .
Ancient from a great dark lake,
A cratered fossil
That briefly skims the surface
Then slides back into the deep .
*[ WSB ].
Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Sad Cankles the Clown,
His venous blood stays down ;
Feet anchored for stooping,
The plasma not looping .
Collagen collapses,
And dead . Are the synapses .
Beta carotene sagging, and
A catheter fills some bagging .
Mini-stroking those cognitive decline blues
Diaper drooping ; cankles spilling over shoes .
*[ WSB ].
It Could Not Be Plainer
A sane explainer conveys planet terrain is not planar :
Correlation, crystal—Terra-shape equals oblate spherical .
Correlation, crystal—Terra-shape equals oblate spherical .
*[ WSB ].
Short Shrift
Spiritus Sanctus spanked us,
And expanded our lungs—
Lamentation before laughter .
Yet, of the three gods in the godhead,
Do you not think the Holy Ghost
Gets short shrift ?
Are these not coequal branches
Of cosmic government ?
The alabastard flapper hovers
Pneumatic across dimensions ;
The wind over the waters,
Carves up Chaos into subdivisions ;
Updrafts the skirt of Madonna,
Imaculate the swelling .
But in the Old Testament, the Father
Gets top billing ; and in the Good News,
The Son suffers the blues :
Yahweh thrilling with river splitting
And dekaplague killing;
Jesus spellbinding by sighting the blind,
And unwrapping death from the winding .
Pretzeled apologies for Sky Daddy,
CEO of the Council of Cielo,
Come from being concerned
Of being eaten by worms
As the terminal organic form .
Composed . Decomposed . Compost .
*[ WSB ].
Paragraph
Letters cluster or justly stand alone,
Warded into some words at intervals
Of broken interruption by punction,
Be it spatial or glyphic, acting as
A rift for clarity as the subpoints
Are predicated : a topic sentenced
With paragraph, full-stopping intent or
Line-spacing a new riff after indent :
Right words included, Emersonian ;
Left words sequestered, precluding droning—
Topics anthropic assayed in essay .
Warded into some words at intervals
Of broken interruption by punction,
Be it spatial or glyphic, acting as
A rift for clarity as the subpoints
Are predicated : a topic sentenced
With paragraph, full-stopping intent or
Line-spacing a new riff after indent :
Right words included, Emersonian ;
Left words sequestered, precluding droning—
Topics anthropic assayed in essay .
§
*[ WSB ].
The Brutes Banishèd
Booting from booing,
Bozo boohooing ;
Bring down the blackshirts :
Bigots frown, butthurt .
Bozo boohooing ;
Bring down the blackshirts :
Bigots frown, butthurt .
*[ WSB ].
The Woman in the Window
Drawn to a painting of the femme fatale,
Recall the panting of the animal
Before primal became civil .
Recall the panting of the animal
Before primal became civil .
I hate this solidity,
The stodginess I feel .
It is the end of the brightness,
The end of spirit
And adventure .
Don’t talk like that .
Men of our years have no business
Playing around with any adventure
They can avoid .
Otherwise, swerve about-face the straight-lace,
And spin the fateful curve topsy-turve,
Oneiric in shadowed noir .
*[ WSB ].