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Compostela or Knock — Wherever

    Compostela or Knock — Wherever Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  The saints are dressed in all their silks and gems As never in their holy lives before Their martyrdoms or whatever.  The hems Below...

Clipped Affection

                     Clipped Affection Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I want to return to the flower and from the flower to my heart. Are you going, love? Farewell! (To my abandoned heart!) ~ Lorca,...

Argument from Design

       Argument from Design   A line of spider’s thread Cuts across the lily scene, Highjacking the flower. ~ Sujū (Englished by Phillip Whidden) A single thread of spider web across The scene displaces lily as the sight To see.  The steel-like silk is ghostly floss...

Étude in C Minor, Opus 25 no. 12 with Porphyry Shouts

Étude in C Minor, Opus 25 no. 12 with Porphyry Shouts Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  The Chopin étude rams the room with power, Arpeggios that swamp and swamp, then swamp The purple, pulsing chords,...

Father and Friendship

        Father and Friendship   My father, he believed in friendship, so Much so he called his two first sons the names Of closest, most beloved of friends.  Forgo The family obligations, family claims, Cut straight to purer love than heirdom’s weight, A nobler...