Brobdingnagian black wall, Guernica aspirant,
ebon-fusty relic cloaking screams, dressed in terror sweat,
bête noire encased in its inky interior.
dreadful scowls splash their faces when they concede to it.
a millennium-long, bone-weary blotch of dystopian dreams.
borne away in liquid moments, only
to return, and wait, prodded erect in front of
bespattered wall, pungent iron comingled with chlorine,
overshadowed by the distinct stench of disquietude—
windowless, impervious black hole,
crackling electric sense of expectancy
howls of incredulity vibrate the air turbulently like a
tsunami,
tectonic movement shifting and grinding
parts one against the other,
frenzied lovers who rest without expectation of climax.
wend our way there ad infinitum.
***
He comes
riding in and then canters out. Oftentimes, the head is bowed by reality; other
times, he is proud to have said something noteworthy. cRetired after forty-two years as teacher/school
administrator, he now resides in Mount Sinai, far from Moses and the tablets.
This has led him to find words for solace. He spends his time
writing and playing his guitar. He has published in many online publications
such as BlogNostics, Every Day Poets, The Weekender, The Squawk Back, Bareback
Magazine, Dead Snakes, Bitchin’ Kitsch, Scapegoat Review, The Artistic Muse,
Inclement, Napalm and Novocain, Euphemism, Humanimalz Literary Journal,
Ascent Aspirations, Fowl Feathered Review, Vayavya, Wilderness House Journal,
Aberration Labyrinth, Mindless(Muse), Em Dash, Subliminal Interiors, South
Townsville Micropoetry Journal, The Penwood Review, The Rampallian, Vox
Poetica, Clutching at Straws, Downer Magazine, Full of Crow, Abisinth Literary
Review, Every Day Poems, Avalon Literary Review, Napalm and Novocaine,
Wilderness House Literary Review, St. Elsewhere Journal, The Neglected Ratio,
The Weekenders and Kerouac’s Dog. One of his poems, Forsaken Man, was selected for Best of 2012 poems in Storm Cycle. Also selected Poet of
the Month in Poetry Super Highway, September 2012. His work was also read
at Palimpsest Poetry Festival in December 2012. He was named Poet of the Month
for the month of February in BlogNostics.
