Velvet White

  sometimes the nipping is intolerable the mind arches in its cauldron of molten manipulation agony but the warrior wreathed in jasmine slides into place and touches the heart with the tip of her silver sword manifesting love I am granted respite amongst the velvet white

Somewhere Lions Roam

my response to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies  , below is the fourth of ten poems.   The decree so weak, the care so false, that glazed windows battered by sand, clatter and shade…. The dark dancing is set to fool and huddled children shake against peeling skin. Glitter is medicine sold by winking monkeys. The silver

Pure Constellations

a response to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies  below is the third of ten poems. moon light tide touch cloaked in dirt stirred by ozone I am a chorus of stars a clarity of pulsing tone old kings may issue from golden tombs lit by the fire of pure constellations faded ink may roar bloody fear but

I Serenade You

  a response to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies  below is the  second of ten poems. Noble words revolve like wisps passing through my stars touching grace. A temporary, fractious glory flings my arms like backward wings with feather tips, spread in sweet torture. Wandering tension throbs in this dark belly of thought, the first birth or

Ebony Universe

  we collect in colourful patchwork to individuate our Ebony Universe