Abdication (poem)

Abdication (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 22 Sep 2025 in Art, Poems

      Abdication   Your eyes stung and crusted You lie unmoving A sibyl garnering predictions vaporing from sewer grates With her liberality of diction She baits you Bile of the nation   Abdication Like a starfish ambulating Your stomach leaves the nest to feed A seesawing cindered feather floats Liver and spine-meat from […]

The Clue (poem)

The Clue (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 22 Sep 2025 in Art, Poems

      The Clue   They had traveled together a good distance His manner of expression gave her pause He doubted she would understand these words And every pleasantry he uttered “I hope you haven’t heard all this before” Was mortared in its place to stop a fault from growing He fluttered samples of […]