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
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