The Other Troy
The Other Troy Where Helen doesn’t get kidnapped by Paris, And all the women aren’t just powerless observers Of their own fates. Where Achilles and Hector are friends, Not bent… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Poetry
The Sky
The Sky What hasn’t visibly changed Is the night sky, the phases Of the moon beyond the Unreliable clouds, universe Turning in the state of decay It was made with…. Continue Reading
Wisdom
Wisdom Conventional wisdom – there is No such thing, wisdom coming From the extraordinary – Holds that there is a season For everything, and all That needs to be done… Continue Reading
Beauty
Beauty It’s a forgotten place Where arrogance and conceit Go to hide when they’ve exhausted Their possibilities for torture Of mortals for a moment, And they sit under the trees… Continue Reading
This Alien Gravity
Should have written and posted this yesterday, but yet again ran out of time. This Alien Gravity In the rush of breath Every day to survive Galaxies die unseen And… Continue Reading
To Seek
To Seek This fool’s errand, To catch the sun’s fall Beneath the horizon At exactly the right time From the city’s tallest Hill above the cathedral, And capture the beam… Continue Reading
Melancholia
Melancholia Late evening moon rise, Woodburner roar, The room dark. Shadows from the fire Jump spaces. She leans into her chair, Legs up and arms wrapped Around her knees, Stares… Continue Reading
Palette
Palette Right now, when the real world and All the worlds he has created begin to collide And intertwine, he no longer has the will To distinguish between what’s fact… Continue Reading
Ulysses
Ulysses In Bromley, over four decades ago, My battered copy of Ulysses and a Dog-eared notebook in one hand, Endless cigarettes threaded through The fingers of my other, I swan… Continue Reading
Ritual
Ritual “Choose your pain,” she said, Hid her slight sense of betrayal. They’d promised her something Meaty and fresh, not a muscle-bound Hulk fashioned from antiquity. “I seek no pain,”… Continue Reading