Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2006 | 3 Comments »
“Easter has less to do with one person’s escape from the grave than with the victory of seemingly powerless love over loveless power” –Bill Coffin
Flags now drape Easter’s unknown tomb
strapped `round rock
with metal’s twisted brooch,
sorrow stains the air
where steel spikes pierced hands and feet
slinging hope like a missile
out its cage of a valiant plot
into [...]
Posted in mournful pursuit, tongue, troops, world’s shrieking on April 16, 2006 | 6 Comments »
They extend their arms as a slothWhen gloom wraps them `round rigid boneThe powdery magic seeks out our grief.Awaiting the warrior character upon his cannonIt does not travel down the barrelRather it thrusts outward to another’s eyeAnd makes bed within their thinking regret,Nestled in, it toils a moment and seeks new prey.
They extend their arms [...]
Posted in 9/11, looming descent, mass murderers on April 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Winking in our dreamsSlumbering past this; our night’s errorSleeping deeply beyond the breaking hourLeasing mass murderers to slip inside our care
Winking in our dreamsTwisting complicit in cradle’s red linenWe are drowning of this our slacked truthSleeping deeply inside mourning nine eleven
White sound weavesOur breath upon our headless tyrannySlips inside our busy lives dawdling hopeWe [...]
Posted in 9/11, looming descent, mass murderers on April 16, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Winking in our dreamsSlumbering past this; our night’s errorSleeping deeply beyond the breaking hourLeasing mass murderers to slip inside our care
Winking in our dreamsTwisting complicit in cradle’s red linenWe are drowning of this our slacked truthSleeping deeply inside mourning nine eleven
White sound weavesOur breath upon our headless tyrannySlips inside our busy lives dawdling hopeWe [...]
