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Here are some bites from four of my poems, up at the new issue of poet Kim Bridgford's "Mezzo Cammin," one of my very favorite online magazines. To see more, go here.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE JASMINE
Until I ran along the banks of death, / Stumbling, cutting my feet, calling your name, /And there I glimpsed the shade of you, not torn / In pieces by mad terror's strike . . . To think,
THE ELDER RACE
They had a flair for fountain-smithery / So that the tears flew up in joy like drops / Ascending to a realm of peace, to stand / Prismatic--as if magical--on air
THE STONE COURT
I didn't meet the terror's lightning-strike / Jag-necked Medusa whom the painters praise / With heads that show a severed life can prick / Its serpent hair to hissing, howl the mouth
THAT WHICH SNATCHES
They'll shriek the dawn awake and howl for flesh, / Heraldic frights so ignorant of evil / They could be us--so ignorant, so free. / On branches in the bleeding wood of souls,
oh wow, very cool
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to snuggle up to some Marly poetry tonight.
Hi there, Miss Susanna,
ReplyDeleteHope you like! Barely got them up as I'm overrun with the end of school and sickies--have had two children in and out of school for the past two weeks... I shall catch up with the galiquan madness eventually.
More wonderful poems! They are terrific. I specially like the furies... I won't be able to get those bats out of my hair now.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard yet what they think of my poems at that magazine. I mentioned you when I sent them.