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December 10, 1998

(entrenching drenching paranoia)

entrenching drenching paranoia
indelible unstallable hell
echoing & bellowing creature
permissive undaunting cell

shell of shock, padlocked
looming doom & dangling
spangled danger pangs
& an unclear ringing

stinging lingering song
enragingly long
strung out stretched beyond
straining on & on

(tragically redeemable)

tragically redeemable
yet so misleadable

honestly the deepest pockets of me
reek of proxy

(I am a lucky living thing)

I am a lucky living thing
blessed with blinding light
left beside the stellar sight
that pairing tends to bring.

(filling all the last spaces)

filling all the last spaces
the orbiting wild dogs
the dog stars courting themselves

a lost loop
afraid of the children
a retained bus hysteria

a dual of stares
the bared teeth
no barren smiles

a fearful creature
remembering jungle books
rotten fruit

spoiled cherry
frozen eyes
glory glare

hater later
lost forever
blank
abyss

close eyed poem

I am free
I am weightless
I have no need
I have a sense of body
I have a sense of outside
I have a sense of senses around me
I have a sense of a churning inside
a perpetual heat
I have a sense of lights

(how to grow, upright, taller)

how to grow, upright, taller
how to conquer dawning entropy
to fill with wide wilder color
to fulfil the greater spaces

wile the wild vile times
safe the ingratiating faces
safe beyond the wandering gone

goal of open older saner sages
list the endless lusting
twist the wisps to wet wicks

stick crass complacency
to the wan hidden face
brace the plaited hair

bare the cooler weight
brush the downy dew
from the roostless news
coast the lonely dawn

tack the tossed docility
felicity as the fine ringlet
firing the dangling line

the dangerous pine
the plying chime
trickle the tasteless winter
screwed into a caustic ball
flame of the fleshy wall

bare the bald cable
blade of the dated curve
curvatious unfurling
fake the broken scrim

skate the skimmed line
balancing the temple twine
tickling the divine

(oh the dangerous slipping)

                  oh the

dangerous slipping,
the teetering teetotaller’s antithesis
stubborn & stuck deep inside
a rolling uncovered boil
a blurring burning,
a creature’s coil churning the
savored lust motor,
breaking the stolen ocean
dreaming the cheap breakthrough
the requested consumption
the requisite liquid lapping
the guessed fantastic

a greased fanatic
to lick the lowy limbs!
the stolid slow & simple
autolyming
paroxysms of paradox

the fox’s blond coven
the deepest sweetest den
the sugar fountain
starriest scariest

lascivious, luscious
lazy & lackadaisical
saintly scent: synonymous stranger
savory lavender flavor
coconut oil glossed dream

candy blur, paired bartender
trapper bluer fisherman
tastiest truest tradition
video insomnia stimulation
sticky tissue company supporter

lost fab fish twisting the
mordant, current, comedy
prince of thighs
meow the fading murmuring
(check no. 470753)

clean of lonely drinking

the stinging purity
glorification of
petrifaction
a loser to leave her
alone?
staying for the strength
          of love?

lover  /  beloved

loner bemused
a muse
marking lots
drawing straws
strewing curves
courting hips
splicing eyes
brushing other hair
the last one left over there—.

d.a.a.p.o.p.

no tight no curious eyes
alone unelemental
elevated to excruciation
no alleviation of this

self–crucifixion
a fixation w/self–deprecation?
or no elucidation of
greater truths.

how to shake these
monotonous strings.
is this the lost logo
of the loosed poet?

how to return to the
forged intentional fortune
and blur again to
the pure, unturned?

December 01, 1998

Long Letter to a Lost Lover

Dear Dearest—

Living with this lonely fear, I find you everywhere escaping me, lost in the lurking shadows, constantly rounding this corner, and that. I feel as though I lose you every moment. I hear you whispering in this wind, and winding away.

I live in this billowing distance. You have turned from me once, and will turn from me again; every time again. You are remembered; a molten memory. My longing looses you always.

I seek the searing pain, pulling you in and pushing off. I pray to you, plead for peace. I whither when loved and looked after. I bare my barren self, fill myself up and flush you out.

I race to disaster. I expect to disappoint you. I close down the burning inside.

I plan for failure. I face growing possibility with implausibility. Everyone expects me diminished, an unfulfilled escape. I disrespect and deny.

I lust. I live luridly. I bereave my achievements. I sink.

(the lustful lesson)

the lustful lesson
imprisoning crimson adulterer
salacious elation
tricked elixir
wicked lisping lips
numbed insanity
inextricable complexity
wavering

          thumb is a glass of gold
only known growing glow
taste temptation unknown unfolding
scent cantation incandescent glowing
grown straight & long
filling the night

          strong
growing glowing sweat sweet sting
bringing the blowing song
effervescing sting
favorite feeling thing
stolen

          from a graceful glance
lost loverly guidance
glossed through a longing stance
savoring the dripping

          lisp
imagined lips locking the
barking bargain
the rolling garden
cresting a crown
an awkward anxious unknown

          glow
spooling the snow
glistening the storming stain
glimmering the steeping drain
of self simmering asunder
embellishing the undertow


          inflaming the pulse temptation
inhaling the saintly soil
effervescing the royal palm
simmering the calm
blackest of the [...]
glowing sexiest goal
a stolen

          stranger’s taste
ministries of waste
wilding the wisest smile
smoldering the
bold agreement
disbelievement
deft achievement
glowingly old.