First trace of pink

edges the line

illuminates the boundary

where dark earth meets dark sky

Midnight blue retreats

to that void, starless and Bible Black

while the low heavens glow

Cornflower sea

where billowing riders advance

Violet, malevolent

malevioletly back lit

Colors rise in waves

the great orange orb ascends

Rush of air

as earth breaths deep

First gasp of a new day

The advance have climbed

now soft lavender dragons

straining for the west

the eternal dawn at their tails

 

The age of penance

when every habit of posture

and vices

arrive to collect their due

When conscience dies

it’s slow death

Life experience has outstripped

so many things

assured were truths

Only leaves renegade conclusions

banishment

We howl in a distant wood

Left unpaid in acrimony

No sanction for false testimony

Upon swords of hubris do these titans impale

Contemplating

their next move and

What is the net effect of nothing

Vacuum, the quantum void

Fit the nooses

We’ll need the bullets to eat

The blade was dull steel colored

Sharp steel, fluid

One clean stroke

Royal blue and silver

crumpled in the street

On this mid-afternoon

where grey skies

grey pavement

Unseeing, black eyes stare

where they meet

Oily black curls descend

into the pool

mat upon the ground

like road kill

His glassy orbs reflect

dreams of a warm place

where assailants gather, contrite

Metal in your mouth

Itch all over

Exotic women speak in tongues

Foreign yet familiar

Though all eyes speak seduction

Hers shone through glass

clear, green, amber

And black

at the bottom of each

Each time curse the witch

yet still take her potions

gallows humor contracts

etched upon pint glasses

visual aids

filter only the surface

deeper imperfections

escape detection

for only an evening

escape life’s dread

contact is comfort

when intimacy

demands too much of your soul