Of Use: Seventh Allied Forces

Posted by ractrose on 3 Jan 2022 in Art, Poems

      The Folly Allied Forces         Of Use   To a life of unkind treatment Toast a prayer— any person with a heart As to Krug it can’t matter, who you are where   He had not had a father Stray girls are placed in homes to bear the sufferings […]

Bride to Be (part fourteen)

Posted by ractrose on 28 Dec 2021 in Art, Poems

      Bride to Be (part fourteen)   Not much past the sun’s departure Evenings of late winter grow too chill For outdoor fires and cloaks of fur Bodies huddled close on couches Where murmured stories ebb and the call of hunting wolves From dens at fall of dark in single file Emerge, and […]

Take Your Place (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 13 Dec 2021 in Art, Poems

      Take Your Place   A man believes he is Christ He searches job hunt danglings and wonders Why no one advertises for a savior He should begin by restoring life If metaphor would arrive to be interrogated If walking over bridges every day might tempt the devil to send a faltering heart […]

Jumping Off: Sand (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 4 Dec 2021 in Art, Poems

      Sand   doll-forms at craft shops bald sightless blockheads you should watch tutorials on airbrushing rose    into cheeks think of a doll for every ethnicity the minefield mechanics of noticing shades     of blush Populate a scheme to become a catalogue name with burials in a fold and tab-together box they were smoothed […]

The Culture continued (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 24 Nov 2021 in Art, Poems

      The Culture II   The Kreutz Sungrazer Should it return Centuries ahead   Trail its vapor of ammonia Methane Carbon The devil’s alloy Nickel-plated offerings   Commodify your tears Make your work efficient Import your tears in boxcars Be done with it A question harms you A word destroys you Step from […]

Rapunzel (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 20 Nov 2021 in Art, Poems

      Rapunzel   Everyone, Rapunzel says Waylaying her latest swain Surprising at the tomb-still cottage gate his hesitant approach Has a milieu, I wanted mine To be more than that of witch’s hostage Bound in a tower room Do you want to know the truth? I winnowed seeds where the birds had crapped […]

Approachable: Sixth Allied Forces

Posted by ractrose on 17 Nov 2021 in Art, Poems

      The Folly Allied Forces         Approachable   Rain falls, a light and misty one, the best of sorts As they of the night patrol who require the pull of it Have medium to prowl the grounds in broader swaths Simon Tattersby, avoiding Lady Gimple and Roscoe Matey and inseparable, […]

Rattus

Posted by ractrose on 13 Nov 2021 in Art, Poems

      Rattus   Intuition, extra sense, if you like Déjà-vu in a prototypic vermin mind We are having telepathic conversation Embracing sight’s elusive romance (To be a genius. To be not at fault for this.) How are we going to solve a problem? Working backwards from the outcome The treat is hidden in […]

The Travelers (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 3 Nov 2021 in Art, Poems

      The Travelers   Time travelers, playbills in hand, shaking the dazzle from their eyes Finding they are on the steps of the old Melodia, tall in her glory The invention new, the first of occasions On which the taboo will be tried Shiloh willing, his ancestor the songstress Who will die   […]

to shed (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 23 Oct 2021 in Art, Poems

      to shed   if you’ve gone out walking the mission has an end goal arriving at the place with sacks, or lacking beggary for help they’ve hindered you forms dropped duly at addresses or into pockets, coating individual per contents, you seek to do kind works for nature closer now, soon to […]