Turniphead

TURNIPHEAD
Turniphead, it calls itself, when names are worth

Something, dumb thing, its eyes dawdle, grin goggles,

Filthy earth-birthed thing.

Turniphead, he calls it, the one who fears it, cheers

Himself secretly with morbid musings, sick-wit choosings,

Never normal, not this one.

Turniphead, they call him, idiot tongue lolling about,

Without a brain, an empty head, so long been dead,

Still, crisp crunch inside.

Turniphead, it marks their words, stores them away

Where half-thoughts play, where half-made things

Wait for the right day.

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Time is Ticking

 TIME IS TICKING

Time is ticking, trickling, trickinG,

Inward, outward, driving, driveN

Makes of mortals origamI

Endless wine we can’t but drinK

Into clocks tocks epiplectiC
Stir the seconds, splash graffitI

Tempt the vast miasmic poT

Into out of unkind hourS

Climb the fools in bright confettI

Kicking, angry, and naivE

Inmates to our inner gleaM

Now as curling nautilI

Give over moments to defeaT

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Boy

BOY

and so descends the night

locks him close within its bowels

makes him move as fawns from wolves

tiny hooves

trot the moss

sense no loss

and here he takes his rest

pensive boy in solitude

how his brashness hides the soft

candied land

colors thought

like it ought

and makers breach the boughs

break the vows prehistoric

forces nature to implore it

xanthic missiles

aimed at nothing

timid hunting

and swells dark disenchantment

in crystal spheres he stares

amnesic indiscretion flares

artful boy

in his prison

double vision

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The Deep

THE DEEP

Step into the deep, my dove, where chasms open wide.

Here all pretense creeps, my love, and plasm subdivides.

Suspended in the gloomy gloom your premonitions glow;

Upending the unfinished loom lets admonition grow.

Fibrous faces, silent chases—here desire reigns.

Let your brain its binds unlace; thrill at the insane.

Inky inhibitions slide; now ripens the forbidden.

Murky fades contrition’s pride; siphons clear, once hidden.

Now pulls the pulsing core so close; the rules were held for naught.

Pressure dulls the bogus host, whose ruse no longer mocks.

Canopies of water flecked with fingers grasp for crime;

Righteous words in kelpy wrecks now wallow in the slime.

 

Diaphanous will lie the bones in vast disastrous heaps

Of all of those who chance oppose what happens in the deep.

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Where the Phantoms Race

WHERE THE PHANTOMS RACE

Little children know the place,

Far from mother’s call,

Where the phantoms race—and

Small eyes peep through the walls.

Gleeful moments twinkle long

In the sunlit days;

Soft the siren song—draws

The sweet ones in their play.

Green to gold and crimson rust;

Autumn takes its hold.

Fates change as they must—airs

Quick move from warmth to cold.

Ashen crowns on tousled heads,

Beetled eyes and tongues,

Flash the frost brings dread—now

All pendulums have swung.

Effigies in marbled rime

Still as life elapsed,

Consorts with grim time—so

What once was must collapse.

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Starry Eyes

STARRY EYES
We miss the gold of yesterday

Wonders wreathed in mistletoe

Complication, infatuation—what moved those hours so?

An apathetic dynasty

Built atop misguided mirth

Elementals, complementals—for what were such dreams worth?

Illusions move elusive hearts

Myth denies most precious schemes

Coruscating, gems dilating—starry eyes so starved for dreams.

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Robert the Doll

ROBERT THE DOLL

Dolly come and play with me.

Dance and skip and sway.

Pennies for your fantasies—

Pay you back someday.

Little sailor in your suit,

Smiles all around.

You come from lands of sunny fruit

And speak without a sound.

Move from pane to pane to pane

When family isn't near;

Never eye has seen them plain:

Whispers to the dears.

Whose, the padding cross the boards?
How, the chair, it rocks?
Softly move the window cords,
Softer sound the knocks.

Blink and giggle, dash and wiggle,

Tormentor and fastest friend;

Screams at night, frenetic fright;

When will dolly meet his end?

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Mammoth

MAMMOTH

beast of fur, flank, force

pebbles vibrating, sediment sliding

curve engenders curl and quail

thing so primitive, primordial power

flat-footed fleet, monstrous conceit

warning curdles wane and wail

bastion plodding, tower toddling

hot and heady stink of ages

bestial urges skull to tail

mountain moving so compelled

crystal breath clouds majesty

any other whitest pale

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Lesson

LESSON

Ever younger stretch the days

Crossing planes where sunlight plays

Coursing through each throbbing vein

Sparking off the gemstone sky.

Here we are and there we’ll be

No plans for eternity

So far are all your races now

But I will wait in spite of why.

Mark the moment of return

Dusty hearts still know concern

Castles in the clouds are built

When casements burst and fevers fly.

Calm the maelstrom churning wild

Reprimand this foolish child

Dim the glow of reverie

Let this lesson fade and die.

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Sinon

SINON

the strangled men sleep, weeping oracles cast aside

and you, duplicitous, false counselor, impress a kingdom for a moment

that moment forever cursed

friend falser than fiend, never mouth what you mean

braver boasts the weary warrior, his days spent unsafely

night destined for treachery

giant your gifts, mendacious bellies, where the craven carved one last hope 

strange gods to praise deception—you slumber while numbers

mumble, stumble into a dupable city

where marbled men breathe their last, coined lips, blue eyes

insidious insinuations, perverted fabrications

no door opens to welcome

Sinon

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Rosy Posey

ROSY POSEY 

She lost herself in shoals of gleam

Became submissive drop in stream

Bits of colored glass

Sparks, sharks, pretty in the beams

Around her drift the thousand blues

And effloresce unfathomable hues

Moments snailing past

Sweet art, dark heart, come to woo

And in the plasmic playing ground

Distracting comfort, light, and sound

Spinning freakish fast

Rosy posey, posers, ringing round.

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Lachrymose Louisa

LACHRYMOSE LOUISA
Lachrymose Louisa through her languid lucite tears

Mourns lovers lost a thousand times,

So fragile in her fears.

Once upon an evening she requited some dark deed.

Such recompense as makes hearts dense

Was crafted from foul seed.

Tailors sewed her moony gown in layers of fine lace

Sartorial skill, so coveted still,

In foam concealed her face.

Mystic maiden, comtemplating, drifted from her court.

Love once hidden did as bidden,

With this false consort.

Naughty one, Louisa dear, to play such puckish tricks;

Seas of fishes—all you wishes—

Now you take your pick.

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