"nyd byþ nearu on breostan; weorþeþ hi þeah oft niþa bearnumto helpe and to hæle gehwæþre,gif hi his hlystaþ æror."

05 January 2012

they are carnations

they are carnations



wishfulthinking vernation wends and undulates,
prudence nowhere to be found. an intransigent
courier with a ticket-of-leave in one clammy
fist and a yabbering eruption in the
other, waiting for the countercoup.
checkerblooms
annex the motherlode; a portentous and
seriocomic frankpledge. regeneration
in segments is a loaded hermeneutics that
disheartens with deadeye delicacy.