by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
No gods presideover our elysiumwe keep it secretexcept to lowly beastseven midnight mothsburrowing under piles of raked leaves we cater here to victims of a lieor objectors to ambitionthe cathedral canopy of pepper leavesscattering the sun like a shattered lense of...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
It isn’t easy living next door to cultureto sporadic exotic chatterthe gamut of emotionresonating in the membranes of wallsthe invasive smell of evening spicesseeping into my dried-out Velveeta kitchen it’s not easy overhearing the ritual cries formommathe proteststhe...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
The path of religionhides and seeks in broken eddiesof intoxicated laughterin souls rubbing up against soulsin children kneeling in day-old mossin the audience inhaling with the divine singerin rosaries of shells and stonesstrung by foamat ocean’s edge we walked in...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
I used to think I knew ghostsuntil last nightstanding in the synagoguein a cluster of slightly altered DNAthe rabbi reciting Kaddishin exhumed tones I became one a ghost partially seen partially detecteda being trapped in eternity not flesh eternal like hands that...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
Not by the will of godnor the mind of mannot by chemical bondsnor electric currentsbut by a half-husheddisembodied breathresonating in the hollow of a reeda sub-audible musicun- performedun-listenedyet powerful as lifesuggesting genesisand there came a dancerwho by...
by DavidR | Mar 15, 2022 | Poems
A sudden wind set the unlatched garden gateclapping out a cadence to the full choreographyof leaping branches and shimmying leavesin the morning spectacle of October our rickety buildings creaked and sighedwith the resignation of impending ruins the horses heard the...
