Ricin

 

English: Machine gun Maxim drawing 1905 Public Domain

  

  Jagged stone exterior
rugged face razor
corners cutting dirt
falling through its history
assembling in a mass
weathered lines and heaps
alluvial fan blades
   The first hit was free
intolerance coded
sedated DNA
the fog of war
its god and absence
truth conjecture
frozen hemispheres
spherical orbits
inches from your aura
   There’s a wind it’s bitten
through skin dry teeth
dragging blood across
dripping down the sand
she said parched
in the sun they ran
dripping mainlined mass
ideology, recovery
   The movement’s mass
its cataclysm waits
ice and chiseled earth
hollowed from within
dripping in the water
deferring judgment
 
MM 3.2022

A Series of Explosions

  

Thank you - Sara's funeral free public domain

Settled just-in frame
bordered not elegant
yet soothes
familial patterns
their blessing is life
untethered
 
these are two tracks
once surreal
or settlement
others horror
fragments
unredeemed
repaid daily
 
counting off breaths
light-grafting rays
filtered through beams
amber leaves
azure bedrock
rooted in sky
 
this dimension resets
frame which
I draw forth from
 
I whispered  
to others in line
thought aloud
while driving away
death has its way
with resolution
 
for anyone
who ever lived
who aligned
life’s movements
at best
its resignation
bizarrely unwinding
 
MM 1.2022

You Can't Go Back

 

Public Domain - A run down cabin in the woods

I drove

into deep wooded forest

with a depth of green

soft-filtered light

 

working its way

broken increments

all the way through

to the ground

 

    A novel place

that rolled and roiled

embedded somewhere

in my line of sight

 

it replayed its view

in continuum

by the time

I’d made it through

 

    If only

small pieces made a trail

thousands of years

untread

 

damp moss cool

crawling up the light

tracks are laid

to be shined out

 

MM 9.2021

 

Know Nothing

 

clip art

To know nothing is
duty bound
always
 
    Its liberation is
a place from which
we spring forth
self-generating
energy
 
   Knowing nothing is
simple surrender
to an unknown
forward path
following
finding
its kindness
 
   Not to be confused
it doesn’t lack
for wanting
 
   Its imagined palette
in humble space
doesn’t suffer
or lack
curiosity
 
rooted forward
 
MM 9.2021

What is a corner

Wikipedia - trepanning procedure from 1525

Shades drawn
 daylight blocking
  stimulation void
   simultaneous feeds
    morphine dripping
     cold blades of light
    evolved current state
   implies understanding
  reactions gauge
 others real time
saccharine empathy
 half-baked articulate
   spectator sport
    cleaning the fish
     heart-pressing glance
      feigned affirmation
     rolling sentiments
    pennies on dollars
   bulge-burning eyes
  sightline atrophy
 enclosed through-line
stitched in circles
 regulate rotation
  sealed-off and buried
   therefore denied
    access dimensions
     myopic vantage
      stunned evolution
     displacing victims
    bloodletting process
   owning mourning
 chronic illness  
Shades monetizing
 
  MM 9/2021

Bloodless Deciders

 

Detached
the host forms a vessel
in theory
hands of a quorum
 
bloodless deciders
theocracy vacuum
palms pressed
with fangs dripping foam
on backs of the neck
 
faces in the dirt
gnawing dirt beneath them
exposed position
ordered shell
waged scars of possession
 
arrangements
in the blood of god’s decay
wrapped in the womb
of state sacrament
 
given their bodies
tracking their movement
plotting their courses
on high
usurping
 
domain invoked
abstract manifest
of sacred derangement
siphon at distance
 
MM 9/2021