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The Opposite of Trance

    The Opposite of Trance Etheric this one isn’t.  He is steep With hairiness and muscle like a Greek Guerrilla killing Nazis.  Flesh is deep If worshipped.  He is foreign to oblique. He wants to thrust and press his chest against His victim as he rapes or woos.  A...

Constitutional Slaughter: Connecticut, Nevada, Florida, Texas

         Constitutional Slaughter: Connecticut, Nevada, Florida, Texas Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate.” ~ Medea, Euripides The women don’t do this, except...

Edict

                   Edict How dull the gilded dome seems under clouds Of London gray.  The perfect, swerving shape Looks saddened as if wearing mourning shrouds, Or dirtiness, or veils of thinnest crepe. Such beauty should not be degraded thus. But London,...

Cooperative Compassion

One of the most famous mythological figures in Chinese Buddhism is Guanyin Bodhisattva. His name means “observing voices.” When he hears suffering cries , he appears instantly to help  . He is enshrined in Buddhist temples in China . He is also she,...

Pure and Gold

               Pure and Gold ….. They rise, two domes, one white, one gold, and knurled Like pleated manna ice cream, exotic, Exoticism of the East, a world Away. Here they are, almost erotic Because they are so beautiful and shaped Like love, or like our loves...