mythology
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High on Queen Anne Road (Cerberus)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 970 why are you the poet you are the poet consequence of shit in love with the marauder heracles slept in his crate hera summoned snakes the snakes moved without reason heracles strangled the snakes one by one by one
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Agamemnon and Clytemnestra(‘ ‘)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 950 blessed her factthat no one believed her and darkness fell this little temple snake little lick her agamemnon fell in love with the prophecy clytemnestra weighed herself and blessed her fact with a gift foreseeing the gates of troy during the prophecy clytemnestra denied the desert island foreseeing birds gift of…
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Liturgy
Wikipedia Poem, No. 892 Safely infestedthrough next week. Dead, I could not be allowed to move when my rabbit ran away it is usually a red dress that day. When my leg went west. The dead I could not say— owned what a belief. I could not say—so who owns this chief relief. I could…
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Artifacts of Reference, No. 34
Tomorrow is my birthday. If anyone is in the meatpacking district and wants to eat hella pizza and drink reasonably priced cocktails HMU. Please share this and let everyone know what a terrible poet I am. You can be anything you want.
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Cleopatra Testing Poisons on those Condemned to Death
Wikipedia Poem, No. 852 it is 1887 at a banquet observe the french artist effects of fine arts think of antwerp now court ensure committee assault.exe swing with woman accusing then twenty-four hours after remarkable public hearing woman accuses committee kavanaugh says friday morning he would vote on the supreme court ensure with woman accuses…
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‘Magpiety’ by Czeslaw Milosz
The same and not quite the same, I walked through oak forests Amazed that my Muse, Mnemosyne, Has in no way diminished my amazement. A magpie was screeching and I said: Magpiety? What is magpiety? I shall never achieve A magpie heart, a hairy nostril over the beak, a flight That always renews just when…
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Scraps for God
Wikipedia Poem, No. 718 mount ancient hard sounds from the coast of his way to be had life ended up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged up scrounged u
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Indefinite Traumatic Past
Wikipedia Poem, No. 684 joined indefinite floodplain indefinite homeowner indefinite homeless person indefinite political junky indefinite colonial invader indefinite disabled adulterer full-stop he claims indefinite migrant indefinite straight indefinite pirate indefinite poet indefinite fugitive indefinite soldier-bound indefinite fugitive indefinite strategist indefinite mass murderer indefinite sailor indefinite traumatic past indefinite war hero-bound indefinite mass joined father…
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Polyphemus in Napa
Wikipedia Poem, No. 655 all that mighty oneself one sees stretch online glassed by the trees its easy eye and wine glasses lost in branches by the pain that’s remembered her sea bottom home for suede flash stupid save oneself from love you see selfless be come classless seawine in a park ing lot terrible…
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Self-Portrait (Memnon’s Remix)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 652 i know what precisely to say do i say a few years back what’s right and how much of love is high cheek bones and how many high cheek bones gatherd here how low the creek groans bones and how much left i felt the thin cracks in what’s right and…
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