Hiding Your Eyes From Your Eyelids

raiment \RAY-ment\, noun:
Clothing in general; garments.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME rayment, aph. var. of arrayment. See ARRAY, -MENT ]

Fingers splayed like fish bones against the sun,
Catching in the throat,

Cutting the image bloody from your sorry sockets.
A raiment of bones and feathers

Rattling in the breath of their own beastly abandon.
Buried and rotten frames

Animating the worm-tunnel dance in the dirt
Bound betwixt

Their frigid vectors. Alone in the silent soil, feasting
On Newton's first apple,

A worm is a wyrm is a warning shot; a hasty scrawl on the inside
Of a door you can't pop.

Pandora's Wine Bottle

menagerie \muh-NAJ-uh-ree; -NAZH-\, noun:
1. A collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.
2. An enclosure where wild or unusual animals are kept or exhibited.

[Origin: 1705–15; <>ménage, -ERY]

Reality menagerie in a tongue-tied head-box
Hope buried-burned in a heap at the bottom
Twisting verdigris a vorpal storm
Distortion on a scale of fish

Lost Paths

aberrant \a-BERR-unt; AB-ur-unt\, adjective:
Markedly different from an accepted norm; Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; abnormal.

[Origin: 1820–30; <>aberrant- (s. of aberrāns, prp. of aberrāre to deviate).

Wandering thoughts on a dark'ning plane;
Lost paths;
Aberrant ideas following
Logically aligned

Curves of causal'ty.

Displacement:
Of terms; of semiotic hallways and bedrooms.

A rearranging of clutter;
Clumping, like snow, of the disparate
Into something holy like
An arabesque caught in your looking-glass:

Observer being observed.

Origin Extempore

extempore \ik-STEM-puh-ree\, adverb:
Without premeditation or preparation; on the spur of the moment.

[Origin: 1545–55; <>ex out of + tempore the time (abl. sing. of tempus)]


These soliloquies began quite thus,
With 'nary a thought to future content:
A capricious whip of that hoary blast,
Once to, now fro, on the taught
And wild wandering tongues

Of the beast and beauty bound,
Osculate on their velvet spread.
Sauvage soit la bête du monde;
Yet beauty's reign shall always be
Obdurately in our heads.