Decline and Fall Chilled and solitary I feel the Fall A season flickering A time cooling Summer’s dissolute heat and aureate fury Quenched In long shadows Darkly déjà vu Gibbon scents the dusk Crisp disquiet Suddenly October has pierced the city Like Alaric’s Goths Rude and barbarous Yet In its gusty fury Lustral – Zumwalt [...]
Better than The land and water is haunted with beasts. Some are carnivorous; Some are microscopic; None are smart like us or entitled to dine at a good restaurant. They think, we think, but differently. None speak Mandarin or Cape York Pidgin English. They have offspring and some care for their young, Some eat their [...]
propulsive retraction because he retreats she goes after now convinced that he is more than worthy of her and when he approaches she retreats certain that she would be accepting less than what she can get she is unaware of how she is pulled and pushed back and forth like moonlit tide of some California [...]
They’ve Stripped the Forest for Babble Reams and reams The black-ink symbols innundate Flooding consciousness with printed words that possess Definitions but know no meaning Tectonics, Aardvarks, political history of Byzantine hydraulics. Dewey decimal has run rampant Chasing, haunting, even lurking in the restroom Parasitically clinging to the walls Stark and blatant waste or frivolous [...]
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