This is a collection of some of my more curious and macabre poems.
Many of my poems play with words, the sounds and shapes of them. However, I often attempt to delineate emotion and sensation I cannot otherwise word, or I take inspiration from legen...
DEVIL'S TOOTH Blood-beaded marshmallow On forest floor Dewing our night-dreams with Vampirish horror
Devil—you lost it— Now salivate red; You roam through the trees, Seek what fell from your head.
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DRYAD'S SADDLE
On you, thing of the earth, the wood nymphs rest—The Dryads, the Meliai, the Caryatids— When flitting from whatever they flee. Your kindly soft brown concave perch Perhaps even once held Eurydice.
Her voice was lovelier than those of the sirens For whom sailors swooned to their deaths When taken in by their song. But a viper unseen tangled with her flesh, And Orpheus wept at the wrong.
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CORDYCEPS No harbingers cry out its name; This seed tucks deep inside. Grows quickly, never shows its game Until the moment's ripe.
And then it chews you from within; It gnaws convictions, bites your bones, Replaces tendon, juice, and then Explodes through skin—you aren't your own.
Such artistry in every spear; With love and skill it carves your form. Caresses lace the pain, my dear; It pines to keep you ever warm.
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ROSY VEINCAP
Horrors of the borderlands,
Hands of murderous redcaps pace,
Chase travelers, wanderers, men—
Then spikes and poles,
Roll the heads of every one,
Fun for the redcap, rosy
Posey, in the blood, the fools'
Pools, spreading about the veins.
Pains we take, we nasty things,
Brings us life, the death of more.
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