Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Scene One: The Unveiling of Vesuvius

one glimpses old stone
& exsanguinated pigeon guano
[fresco: a miniature Ophanim] mottled
salt-cured meat
in clay pots

we draw Sarno--of Once Was--
with perfume oil of abalone
bone remnants
tablatures in dust--
where dimness agglutinates
with ruinous sediment---
other Pompeii-ash
gleaming mistless

in the molten slit

Monday, August 24, 2009

Love, Fervently

for DAJ

o
f fingers, the symmetrical, smoothened
underside of warm hands

where silence is writ “waxen mummies”,

“spiracle-wink”

we sweeten the derma with honey, honey to seal a darkness,
that of arroyo, in bathed bronze-- two statuesque apparitions,

rich-warm with salted kiss-es, ebbed

to outlive fossilized bracken
& manganese
love, fervently--

spectral & polarized
upon a pyre borne of lust

& crystalline fires

(an enduring zenith;
memory interpreted in the ghostly shadows

of an eye--ich bin sie, sie bin ich)



in reflection, we be


Monday, August 10, 2009

New Blog



Here is a new blog which focuses on my new-found interest in fashion. Enjoy...

The Fashionistarium

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

To Divulge or Conceal Some Small Parts of the Self



a needle-eye, the bulbous oviform

of seed pod,
the pinched quill tip




incessant, small, fever orchids
stretch into swollen wool


squeezing through a body small

& ruched into
the aforementioned furrow

wrought a puckered
& crucibled sew
of muslin wraiths

closely
fitted to breasts,


smoothly lined

by wasteland organza;
the miasmic burst of sun, intensified


dried roses
& time fickled

by formless water-ink
by links of linen slunk

about the hips

to lips; the taste of determinable
coy