Author Archives: urbansonnets

Am I really so twisted that I seecolor that isn’t and hungers unslaked,and flavors unsavored, fresh miseryaccorded to inkblots and whispers faked?:There are at least two rules one must follow in this world of gardens and of dungeons:”Stay out of t… Continue reading →

Through diamond panels, the light crashes in,and the wet wind whirls and wooshes outside;the metal tongue lies in practice again,striving for the fragrant taste of the bride:New patterns unfold with a certain spice that piques the palette with bro… Continue reading →

I flicked a switch and then the sound shatteredall around my feet, and I heard the voiceof passion — never logic — unfetteredby the windless escutcheoned sails of choice:Each shard was like a new meaning explained by dint of feel, never fear of … Continue reading →

Filaments were broken, fingers retracedand the maps were useless, the charts were blank;The mindless consortium of class replacedby the intestinal quiver of kink:The plants were not yellowed, the soil was moist, and the birds hawked and prayed in … Continue reading →

In the marginal trace of the paper,I am empty and full, foul and emptiedof that feeling, that instinct, that taperto spark a dream out of the yellow seed:I hear the gambol of the watery drops titter on golden strings of baseness,making movements s… Continue reading →

The taste of living can be so, so sweetwhen the dew of sound shines under the bulb,like late fireflies rushing to the meetor constrained fingers that can scrape the curb:The slow heft of brown wings leaves a shadow, a trace of movement, a placemen… Continue reading →

I never know what to do tomorrowwith a vexed step and a most narrow lipthat arches up like a flagrant flyerand a presence that shrinks from the nightstrip:True heroism dwells in the pits of vision and priceless thrusts at the centralcore, where th… Continue reading →

When facile similes relate the selfto larger but shallower tendencies,it is an indication of the gulfthat rests between passions and memories: There are flames in my eyes for the cold truth, the little flutters that pass over meas I dream or think… Continue reading →

The metallic roar has turned into wind,and the moisture is now a path of phlegmwhich thickens in the throat, so parched and thinnedby the smoke-eaten drips that flood the brim:The crisp felt hat that is dipped in the pond to fend off the bears fro… Continue reading →

I only dig in crates when I have to,but the mossy stench invigorates mefrom eye to eye, as treason and graft doin the souls of this nation that hates me:The past emanates in portions, parcels of lightness and dust that rinse the sea floor,uncoveri… Continue reading →