TEAPOT

TEAPOT

below
everybody’s radar

a fabulous world
bunkering
at the bottom
of your
white rabbit hole

and
after a divinity of
fine tea in the
arms of such company

time to reset
boot up
    swipe
delete any virus
inconvenient program

waiting for
the bus of old age
who on Earth is
going to believe your story

the jury out
on whether the bus has
been missed, is late,
can
   be said to exist

that debate
still raging, if ever
so quietly,

the luxury of it all
every tea set fully furnished,
expertly laundered

no future as monolithic
on the horizon, on
any horizon, as that
presents us as star child

not wishing to moonshine you
Cheshire Cat or Caterpillar you

you my dear girl
        captured in this selfie
under the hat you
borrowed from
that mad
fellow

nothing in your sharp mind
going to change the heavy
metals in
    his system to
                     gold

who single-
handedly threw
tea pot into unknown
postal district
     this saucer into whole
new big bang aggrendisment
lurking in
galaxy not up
to us
to speak about

DARK SIDE

DARK SIDE

“You have no idea
of the power of the
dark side.” Star Wars,
Episode V  The Empire
Strikes Back.”

Garside
dark side

my sleek black
serpentine muse
surfacing with a list
of devilish assignations
from
   deep beneath the pithead

me paying in blood for
these limited skills (can
barely call
them art)

but today a difference:
wraps me up, hauls
me off
   takes me deep
down in that elevator
sheer
   demon deep

leveling out there
whar she blows

other uses for these fingers
back-up dexterities

learn to
probe shadow, uncouple
                           shackles

take on board so much
blistering anger raging
irreverence
       
raving               raging
words
           ruins
runes
spreading  chaos
across the page
.
stooping to levels
below the unthinkable

damned
to write horrors, delights,
infinite beyond
the gurgling sounds
a throat might make, doomed
damned
         blessed

infinitely so
for all time
     

CURVED (TOGETHER)

CURVED (TOGETHER)

chaos dawned
fractals like schools
of forever spawning fish
did
   abound

and with them
      as summoned

Aphrodite
      that absolute beauty
born of monstrosity

was born
(if birth is a word that at all
befits
        her genesis)

time stretching
space stretching  stretching together as
        interlaced reality

everything stretching to
accomodate
run
with that pattern

and with Aphrodite
the universe really curved. with but
    a single goddess glance
stone, rock,
sand
     came alive,  sure antithesis
to Medusa

she and me riding that wave tracking
    that curved ball

roving
   through left field (the grass
grown too tall for baseball)

moving all the
time
     desire and its object
gold and
    base metal chasing each other
ad infinitum Achilles
and tortoise
       mortal and
               divine
sacred and profane moving together

NICE

NICE

better buckle up
sent down

a torrent of sarcasm
if rain can
be acid

the satire here
was molten invective

everyone expecting manna
sugar candy mountain
Wonka factory nice

but what
was happening in that dark
snuff film tunnel?

arms  better be
            sheathed because
if at
  all upraised in

diabolical salute
so vicious
    this tirade seem

bound
to get burnt off