Masada Naturalis
Originally published in the Owen Wister Review, Spring 2010
There is a wall of constellated stars,
a fortification built by strange pre-cosmic colonists.
Category: Written Work
Succulence
originally published in the Open Window Review
This sentence, once congested, stuck,
now chases the cursor slipping in the white,
On Maneaters of Kumaon (1944)
Originally published in the Open Window Review issue 2.
Read about the book Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett @ Wikipedia.
Came Christ the tiger.
–T.S. Eliot, “Gerontion”
When in youth I hunted, the tiger
I tracked was not so much the prize
as was the tiger of youth inside–
to tame his reckless strength to valiance.
To the Chaldean Zeus
Originally published in the Open Window Review issue 2.
Cloud rider, falling from the sky
harder than a nuclear sunset,
have you measured your wings?
I’ve seen a black sand beach
stranger than any foreign world
where King Poseidon draped in seaweed
once walked upon the Earth–
a black sand beach where steel-colored waves
wash up to shining, ashen stones
nested beneath charcoal plateaus that break out
all over in lime green leaves.