Category: narrative

crush

∴ we be wolves, once in our youthful springtide |
venturing where mickle spirits feared to tread |
we, with nay pledge of coin
pursued vile beasts who wrought foul deeds |
casting their iron-venom hexes upon this ground |
our flick’ring shadows hardly e’er heeded |
Wolfmother’s warnings, crushing our fears |

what needs have we-creatures for treasure |
mayhap, shortsighted simpletons, we be
instead taking our trove
in the hæle, in the venturing, in the fantastic |
·
ere the moon arose Tiwesdæg last
as the four pillars awakened
we resolved to embark on a quest
as naught could halt us beyond the reasonable |
for even when we doubted, we pressed forth |
older and in some measure more sagacious |
(yea, jest if thou wilt, as we jest along with thee) |

nights of running ’neath the speckled forest moon |
lofty peaks piercing clouded sky
enveloped by the wild frenzy of nature’s lifeblood |
bestowed upon us by Wolfmother

we, who remain, dig pro tempore dens
ere these alabaster charms doth rest
and then begin anew on the morrow

thou hast transitioned through the ethereal brink |
into the myst’ry of thy endmost journey
we offer your echo our humble gramercy
we bid thee our lugubrious howls of farewell ∴

fecund


i am the oubaitori seed
undaunted by time,
with your promises
Earth fecund and heavy
we two, the architects
of tomorrow’s blooms

lichen


in the forest of arrows
don lichen green
make each breath,
a meditation

as even the softest sigh
will release the heart’s
gentle truth

delerium

∴ delirium fever
in absence
worlds unraveling

desire

cold sweats and trembling lips
without your touch

i am a wild thirst untamed
by water’s simple relief
or the hum of nights alone

in this tide of you
i drown

floating on the jagged peaks of wanting
and you, pulse
coursing through my veins
a storm to fill this empty sky

and i am lost
in the maelstrom of your everything ∴

brindled element

∴ pour me another
happenstance
drawn from oaken barrel
to steady the scales
to balance the sweet
with complexity, with depth

through nitrogen-induced
liquid cascades
every atom adrift—
between enspelled spaces
a contact improvisational
adventure unyielding

am i the wayward electron
or stray proton,
seeking chaos (carbonation)
elements in fragments
each meeting
a (re)connection

imbibe
this shaman’s draft
a whimsical
flight of brindled
temporal brews ∴

pathos

∴ windows roll’d down
evening’s mist billow’d in—
took pathos out for chimaek feast
(치맥 – Korean fried chicken and beer) |
meal was grand
reminiscing grander

Time! TIME! to go
tab paid
pathos left at the train
hugs exchanged
final waves
on into the brilliant unknown
life braves ∴

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