The Burn Pits
I stand among the burn-pitsSurrounded by their lightBuilt to test the universeThey glower day and night I stand among the burn pitsThe court that tries by fireWhere nothing is exempt…
Poetry and Philosophy
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. - Oscar Wilde I started writing with the…
Diesel Chariot
Blinding chrome bars gleam like metal sunlight Shining 'tween the headlights, mirrored sky, Throws up dusty stormclouds in its passing, Roaring horses make the wagon fly, Down the sun-scorched fields…
Fire-Circle
By food and drink, the bonds we make Around the fire by the lake; Though waves exhaust and embers burn, To this circle we return; Some depart, to flee the…
The Camera and the Wrench
Everyone wants power, And this is not a sin -- The strength to lift your furniture, The speed and skill to win -- Everyone wants power, For those without aren't…
The Silent Statue
Was "cold command" what Shelley saw, When looking Ramses in the eye? Dead and gone was man to king -- And statue lived beneath that sky; He wrote his hate…
Isa
ISA reigns ISA reigns Fire ebbs And ISA gains ISA reigns ISA reigns Fire dies ISA remains Hail to ISA ISA hail Cold and white In Winter's gale ISA first…
Strange God
What a curious glory, A baffling kind of love, That pulls our eyes from beauty And turns them up above; In what strange morality -- And to what foggy ends…
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919) By Rudyard Kipling As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of…
Behold the Vampire
Behold the Vampire There he Goes Appears as you or I By day, a man, By night, a beast; In Darkness he comes by If invited, In he'll come To…