Darkened resemblance awakened columnsAppearing between cover-grown fountainshappily arranged as sticky meadows.Entwined appetites smother adorned ease.First climbing curls entangling canopies,Then falling fattened by warm innocenceTo the round gallops accomplishing ageLike quick stop reminders strung atop clouds.
Author: Andy Adkins
Unpotted Anxiety
Scavengers devour survival forewords.Their cutaways brighten lashed reflectionWith groaning banners in tongue sown courtyards.Wild uproar sounds unruly auditionFrom fast distressed lips as woeful prelude.Forlorn wisdom is a contradiction Fathering misguided ineptitudeUnsweetened by eloquent courtesy.In it pale moments languish thoughtlessly‘Till adroit learning garlands destiny.
From Harbor to Horizon
Fond companions nest brutality between cloudsOn sharp tacks copied by time & sails.Moonlit & sun-worn until murmuring slowed,Sympathetic travelers aroused swellsTo shower and balm grief with turbulent praise.Like conspicuous torrents,Mercy steamed wantonness overboardAvoiding prow loss, misdirection, and puzzlementsWhere biography compasses precise stewards.
Landscape Resistance
From towered raimentsYouth doubled elliptic pacesMagnify common identityTo separately question memoriesOf frozen eternity. Narrow fools shuffle hungry windsAnd graze flowered mortalityAs quickly fading passengers. Ugly combs, afterward, Abruptly mumble remnantsWith toiled births and blinding affectionLike persistent habits to cloud beginnings.
“Pan with Us” by Robert Frost as Read by South Park
https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/4t3h8r/south-park-i-ll-just-walk-away 1874 – 1963 Pan came out of the woods one day,— His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, The gray of the moss of walls were they,— And stood in the sun and looked his fill At wooded valley and wooded hill. He stood in the zephyr, pipes in hand, On […]
Guarded Prompts
Wavering fires hurried rust bound silence to delight thunder and tremble ashes.Their unkempt madness puzzle and forsake reason like tear-swept thorns quickly forgotten.Between indefinite promises cleverness jealously laments unbridged wonder.Embellishing sighs brush and contrapose renewal. Deserts learn green abundance from seasoned joy.When fallen, ascend as neighbors until butterflies flicker comprehension.
Table of Contents
A. “On an Unknown Country” Hilaire Belloc B. “Before the Law” Franz Kafka C. Poetry “Laurels Burning” “Capitol Defense” “Invisible Doubts” “Flower Stems” “Uncordial Plots” “Flight” “bubbles” “Triumph” “With Counselor’s Math…” “Annulled Again” “Eyes for Ascent” “Lotus’ed to Happiness” D. Haiku “Invisible Doubts”” “Flower Stems”” “Thought Embers” “Crossing Circles” “Vicarious complexity” “Doting Labors” “Immortal Coins” […]
“Laurels Burning”
Tendrilled distractions ransom tangled feet As embroideries bound tight to their coats By nodes paved,fenced & speedily discrete. Seclusion ballasts orient all floats To ordered convenience from verdant ports Like persistent chattel toiled infections Mining confused silence from private courts. Underneath resolved service solutions, Adventuring youthful contrarieties Celebrate despair beyond moonlit tense Dressing vigils for […]
sometimes visual aids help My Wrists Told Me (Marissa Tomei)
image of me 18 months after the two now famous girls tried to kill me by slicing my wrists (FT. Bragg, NC …coincidentally Julianne Moore & her nuclear family were there). Pain-based neurocircuits still register the event both in mind and location (Left Wrist/ The Stick) Left wrist suffered high degree serration; the wound was […]
“Quiet Harvests”
Immiserate nerves press listening calm forward like freight concealed voids.