Every Plant is Signed
For each its purpose, every plant is signedEmbedded by the Maker with intentsIn willing service to Creation, thenMaybe we shouldn’t tell them how to live Because if we humans are signed for plantsEmbedded by the…
Category: Original Poetry
In Honor of Hagia Sophia (From A Liturgy for the Emperor)
Our eternal Constantinople isNever to be lost, never defeated:In every Christian flows Dragases' bloodEvery village is the Holy CityEvery church is Hagia SophiaEvery prayer is a Mass for the EmperorEvery children's foot-race the HippodromeEvery poor…
World of Image
We live in a world of image. Whose we no longer know.We used to discern the truth. But that seems long ago.It’s funny what we confuse, for an enlightened mind.Amassing information, but leaving critical thinking…
Death of a Titan
She was called the Queen of the Ocean,A beautiful ship of dreams.Titanic was her namesakeUnsinkable was what she seemed. Her story is a tragic one,Oh Royal Mail Steamship.The greatest disaster epic toldNow rests in the…
A Tyburn Tree in Diebus Nostris
This summer seems to be a Tyburn TreeEverything upright connects to crossing beamsWhose angles cancel every aspirationIn a suspension of time, of thought, of hope This summer seems to be a Tyburn TreeEverything horizontal paused…
It’s Hard to be a Peanut
It’s hard to have a peanuts life,the things that people do;they use you in their arts and craftsand cover you in paint and glue. If you want to use our bodiesfor your crafts, games, and…
The Cherry Tree Who Visited an Apple Orchard and Decided to Stay
In the blowing-wind dusk the cherry tree waves Far more than the orchard’s Anna-apple trees Into whose company it has intruded itself This party-crasher who has somehow moved in While the cherry tree waves its…
The Gatekeeper
I came to the gate, it was very late.The flower was in my hand.So beautiful and bright, it gave off a light,but then came his reprimand. “What is it you bring? What is that thing?It’s…
A Pocket Notebook Found in an Old Coat
Memos to myself in the long ago: McKuen asks me for my autographCohen offers me one of his coolest hatsOr maybe that famous blue raincoatPushkin’s spirit challenges me to a duel Book-signing in Harrod’s on…