Poetry is a measure

Poetry is a measure of the inaccuracy of imagery.

The mandate of poetry

The mandate of poetry is to utilize exactly the inexactitude of language.

Go

Go to the ruins to rut in the rubble.

Only for

Desperation is only for the living.

New poems

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"End of Day"

My poem "End of Day" has been accepted for the November issue of streetcake magazine. Last had a poem published there in Feburary 2018, so I'm quite pleased.

The definition of hell (Hodgson)

Yet, though I searched earnestly, I could discover nothing that I had not already seen...

Hilliam Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland

In the interval

We dwell in the interval between intervals.

The lake thinks

The lake thinks it likes the bird but only knows the shadow of the bird.

Markers

But dawn and dusk are markers of movement, not of time.

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Briefly

Civilization resists, briefly, against oblivion.

The skeleton of the seed

The skeleton of the seed is the seed of the skeleton.

We spend our lives

We spend our lives trying to compress the expanse.

Pop

The past is a swell, the present a bubble, the future a pop.

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Real things

Real things are made up of unreal things.

The greatest surprise

The greatest surprises often lie in the obvious.

So often, so eagerly

Why do people so often, so eagerly, mistake price for value?

One person

If one person went to heaven it would become hell.