{MARK OF BEASTS}

When Noisy White Fog Arrives
Odd Shapes Stand-Still
Then Softly Walk Away

They Talk At The Same Time
To Make A Sound And Stare

While Beauty 
Shows Its Value.
Silver Cloud 
Looks Around For Its Pair.
Thinking Its Deflated.

While Glass Breaks 
And Drives Off Into The Sunset
To Find What It Means 
To Be Alive.

{THREE & ONE HALF YEARS}

A Burning Branch
With An Aquatic Father

Renounced All Shares
Didn’t Mean To Bother

It Begun And Wound Slowly
Over The Many Years
But Doesn’t Know Where Its Going.

Advanced Toward
The Cliffs Of Loneliness
And Long Silence,
With Clinging Creature
And Affectionate Violence

Now I Believe
I Know Our Manner Of Life
Is Very Much Alone

We Solace Ourselves When We Arrive

{TOLD OF TWO WITNESSES: ONLY ONE LIVES}

Again Followed 
Someone’s Example,
And Addressed The Cut
That They Had Provided

Spit Knowledge 
Out Into This Night

With The Fire
With The Fly
With The Circumstance
Will This Die

Her Loyalty To Him
Where Weather Was Fine,
Made An Industrious Hum
Of Well Worn Engines
The Wind Moved
For Many Miles
Into A Column Of Blue Smoke

Roots Carried An Answering Chorus
Of Savage Hearts And Everything

The Presence
Of A Cry
Of A Free Land

The Asking Was Coming
The Real Crude Stone Hatchet.
The Eyes Vanished For A Short Time.

{ANGELS RECEIVE JUDGMENT INSTRUCTIONS}

Asleep.

While She Shook Her Head At Me
With That Same Sad Smile Again

And My Frown Could Have 

Struck Her Down 

Altogether, I Suppose

Were They There? 

Were They Where? 

Two Poor Fools
Made Themselves 

Lost At Sea.

When Less Experienced

It Was Better Days With Me

I Can Never Call To Mind

What Have I Done To You?
That You Should Turn 

From Me Like This.

The Words In Your Throat 

The Thoughts In Your Head

The Feelings In Your Heart 

In Your Scream;

You Cry. 

You Dare. 

You Listen. 

You Stare.

But Instead You Could 

Dream Of Nothing 

But Those Harvest Days.

Awake.

While He Fled 

Before The Cold 

Winds Of Autumn

They Called Him 

By His First Name

Between.

While Leafless And Bare,
With Trembling Air.

Moving Ashes From Fire
Dug Up Neanderthal Wire.

Watched Them,
With Victims They Possessed
Such Sweet Imperiousness,

Such Dazzling Beauty,
Cheerfulness Under Scrutiny
While Swaying In Dread
Of Long Winter Slumber
Declared I'm Dead.

{SEVEN ANGELS OF THE THRONE}

The Curtains Set 

As They Came Up 

And Went

Where It Left Behind 

Her Departure
All That It Ever Had.

That Kind Of Nature 

In Your Heart.

I Wear Your Colors Now

I Wore That Pledge;
I Found That Key.
I Killed That Yesterday;
I Was Not Me.
I Would Hearken To Those Swaggering Talk Of Arms,
I Will Look Neither Back Nor Forward
I See No Great Change Upon My Sorrow;

Found We Two Split Down The Middle.
Listen, They Have Seven Words Together.

{WORSHIP OF THE LAMB WHO DEVOURED LIONS}

You Can Speak Out Plain
Before This Is My Head,

For I Called Out Her Name
And Then Made A Move.

Tripped Over My Ghosts Shadow.
Hearing Those Steps For The Last Time.

I’m Thinking Too Much These Days
While Living Out The Less.

You Have No Right To Speak To Me Like That.
What Have You Dared To Say.
In Sight Of My Old Demons.

An Un-Lending Error 

With One Possible End.

She Wore That Noose At Her Neck,

And Yet I Thought I Owned It Myself.
While I Wore The Razor At Her Crown.

Infinity Glowered At Me 

Like One In Doubt 

And A Good Deal Of Temper.
All We Forfeited Was To Hang 

A Little Together While It All Fell Apart.

If It Was Only Long Enough 

To Discuss It Quietly;
I Doubt We Have Done Better Than You.
And, At Least We Are Ashamed 

Of Our Ingratitude And Ill-Behaviour.

Now We Are The Light

In Which He Constantly Presented 

In His Talk,

Now We Are The Nobody 

In Which It Led Swaggering Seaward 

On A Long Walk.

I Am Here To Speak 

While I Cried,
Gazing On Her Silhouette,

Is It A Mistake Again?

{FORBIDDEN TO WRITE EVERYTHING SEEN}

The Truth Was Preordained
Before The Use Of These Words Of Trembles,

Please Say Nothing At All Of A Situation
Something I Will Never Understand.

If You Believe In Your Way,
Then You Do Still 
Care About Something.
So Please Refrain 
from Shooting Your Tongue My Way.

We Could Get Along,
But I Am Not Returning
To This Place Again.

Especially If At The Same Time
This Were Something 
That Never Meant Anything.

Is It Because I Am Disgraced?
Some Things Were Said And Done

Is It Because You Are Displaced?
Some Things Were Better To Be Forgotten.

The Next Day I Just Couldn’t Help Myself To Let It All Go.
A Little On The Complaining Side Of Things.

It Says Here, If You Read The Small Print,
You’ve Been Placed In An Unfair Position;
By Your Own Self.

Had To Deceive Himself First To Find The Meaning.
Then Cast It All Away.

Little He Wondered About;
Inclined Very Near To Burst Out.
Upon This No Remorse, 
Thought It Horribly Alarming;
Upon Beating This Dead Horse
Plunged Back In A Fresh Despair.
My New Moon.
My Old Sun.
It Crumpled To No Purpose.

The Dissembled Soul;
Had Just Began To Touch The Matter.
Nobody But Blind Men For Seeing Dog Eyes.

Beyond The Late In The Night, In Strict Frost,
My Teeth Chattering, My Dear Shivering Love.

I Know I Might Have Relied Upon The World,
But My Fingertips Slipped
While I Was Grip Tied.

Lost With Myself. Alone Again In The World,
Like At The Beginning Of The Movies Ending.


So Serious. How Have You Sped?
So Absurd. How You Have Shed.

{RAPTURE BEFORE: SCENE IN HEAVEN AFTER}

It’s Not Possible To Express Meaning Better,
While It Carries Me Home Once Again,

I Found The Nails Drawn Out
The Black Keys Tone Paled.

Found Him Backwards Enough In His Place.
I Knew Not Where I Was.

Had Forgotten Why I Wasn’t Happy;
Looked Down The Road For Years On End.
One After Another From Beyond The Hill.

Diverted Me Extremely.
Secrets Of Deception.

Oh, Lady You Refer To The Most
Has No More Tender Affections
She Was Awfully Displeased.

Oh Sorry,
I Interrupted. My Fault.
You Would Care If You Had

Oh Sorry.
If I Had Only Held My Tongue.