Of Things Past and Future

The monstrous golems
Of things past, the colossus
Of rot and bloat; gaseous dream
Rising to dominance,
Oh gangrene remembrances

                      Of things past and future


These wretched night stallions
Galloping in humankindless’ place
On the carnival-go-round
Of carnal (chambered) knowledge--
These stanchions under the brooding roof

                      Of things past and future

Awake in this penitential night,
Human awareness scratched across
A black-boarded mind
Of inner side-show sky overcast
Waiting by the kafka-revolving door

                       Of things past and future

Endless spinning, the mirrored mis-hope
Of history’s leviathan launches
Bacchanal killing of the go-round
By skin-thin souls, carny totems of the
Masque, redded from ‘poe’ to pole

                       Of things past and future

But all to stanch this ‘juglarnaunt’
This endless ‘steeded’ carousel of terror,
Only the parabolic words
Of one wanderer, a harlequin
Hanged by reasons of the world

                       Of things future and future




Previously published in a different
form in Half Way Down the Stairs
and Static Movement

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