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Flowers like Leis Lying on an Altar

    Flowers like Leis Lying on an Altar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  The sculpture of a god whose powers are not Apparent waits for you to pray to him. Can he protect a baby in a cot? If so, what...

Unruly in a Village Cemetery

         Unruly in a Village Cemetery   They did not dream it when alive, yet ghosts Are happy when they find a way to cause Disruption as in polar bear cracked coasts, Antarctic shores — or like Antarctic claws From killers, icebergs floating toward the fate Of...

Miracle of Modern Medicine and Demonic Itching

Miracle of Modern Medicine and Demonic Itching It crept along inside her like a long- Lost angel Jesus couldn’t cure.  The wretch At worst had withered wings and lost its song. Inside her breast the devil couldn’t stretch And couldn’t fledge its arrows.  They could...

Testosterone

                      Testosterone Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem   https://preview.redd.it/2sabktru2ap91.jpg?auto=webp&s=44f636d4c1403e4c291fe5a6e3e850cdf73c4499 A rose of semen crossed with iron...

My Sonnet Wants to Be on Vellum

My Sonnet Wants to Be on Vellum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  I know it’s nigh to blasphemy, but still It’s true:  my focus on the form I use Is like obsessions of the monkish quill And brush that in...