Gnomes

GNOMES

here’s what happened

fog and brain, ribs and rain

I moved apart from winter but found snow and ash

in hideaways where reddish

gnomes mined for fragments

of fractured illusions

the mirrors of my haunted corners

cracked in angles only 

they could read, the maps of our indiscretions

oh, suspicion

my arrows aimed for buttercups but

pricked the shades we crafted

and shone light in turn refracted

spilling bits for reddish 

gnomes to claim as theirs

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Life Perplexed

 LIFE PERPLEXED

burdened little heart

you speak through gleaming wires

encumbered by chrysanthemum scents, spare parts

I celebrate how intricate your style

 

through eyes evangelized

whose cinders welcome fires

emerge the visions better off left fossilized

I agitate the delicatest wiles

 

life perplexed, a multi-verse

a bloom submerged in briars

designing with their tiny claws a rudimentary curse

I hesitate, in triplicate beguiled

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She and Him

SHE AND HIM

in white she moves in shrift she sighs
the carroller of homicide

engaged in rage while thought is caged

and all around her rebels lie

regale the brute bewail the saint

no argument for conscience faint

reviled, defiled, the ghostly child

has moved her mumbled mouth too straight

she makes the light; he courts the dark

rememberers of ancient arts

what's been goes grinning 'cross their skin

the past evinces grimmer arcs

a shadow gorging blacker things

he breeds what's always tied his wings

provoking then revoking 

all the chaos desperation brings 

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