Nascent PoeticsNascent PoeticsNascent Poetics
A stymied rage that Snarls just below the alibied surfaces That lashes out at the most inauspicious times Primed anger as a muffled howl crawling against All the figments come calling Stalling that pristine inability to rationalize A fist as reason smashing Bashing the perceived self
Trashing the known norms Storms that will not require their ends
Where has the magic has gone Fawning for the phantoms of what should have been Again, the passing parade ever farther Short, the longshots not hitting Abort, sitting in front of y
Fear's EulogyFears’ EulogyFear's Eulogy
Then let us be secretly afraid,
cowering, cringing, glaring at the unknown Other Duck and cover Let us
be swayed by gnawing on the maw,
trembling before another feasible headfake Squirming,
worming
tantalizing vagaries into steely-eyed truth darkly Let us startle and flinch, swooning to the slick treasons of
morbid incompetence And so
pander to pretense, cowed, bowed before of a particularly
reassuring and confident malfeasance Reason be dammed Let us
go with the anything-could-happen scam
Let u
A Winter CertainA Winter CertainA Winter Certain
Comes a Winter anxious
Shards of frost slither, seep
Creep in a chill that clings—the icy there Bare as trees bending under its harsh howls Blowing,
growing bolder, colder Yet deliriously dazzling, bright, clear—in
a sharp sunlight that gives no warmth A lawless feeling, numbing, stinging, dangers Stranger than seasons past;
crackling,
shattering, shivering splinters A coming of a certain Winter
Frostbitten reason churns in these stark swirls of bitterwind Blowing off the considered undeniable &nb
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