Sunday, March 11, 2012

the baboon

Strawberry patches of perfume plants, pinwheel cushions of yellowed dart frogs, a Guyanese breeze of dense green jungles and gory choir of piranha teeth, makeshift camouflage beret's, duct taped machine guns and badly broken bamboo cages overflowing with vicious wild orchids and a fat oil-black military officer smoking a fine barrel-aged cigar in the rain.

Grave-side, grave-yard, coils of skeletal grave-robbers digging in the wagon-wheel ruts, balmy jail bars, formaldehyde breathing berry-eyed circus tent, a vast array of salted candy voodoo sticks, slit cardboard tickets and slimy opaque gates stuck with a child's chewing gum statue, the sunlight aghast, sun-swept silver shadows on the yard of a Haitian prison. Ligero leaf, A fancy tobacco Cadillac with no gasoline, a wedding dress for a corpse, a bokor's zombie doll and needle pricked arid chest of an obese puffer fish, alice blue curtains from a quiet château, a hospital chalet of convalescent chapels, dilapidated traffic lights turning black.

A carnival of untied shoe-laces, A mummified midnight vendor with ugly exposed draugr veins in the neck, a sweat ring on the stitched collar, inky flat fingernails crowned with callus, copper vikings posed in clay, a mansion of brightly colored prizes, antique jam-jars of entombed goldfish and a bursting target made of flames, a small hoop for a miniature horse, walls of shrunken heads and shy, slanted faces made of sickly caramel apples, dripping plastic daedric artifacts, delightful rosary beads and a sad balloon mosaic, shards of stolen ocean glass, pools of marauding church-ants suffocated in orange syrup, amber-decayed bourbon caskets and floods of pretty wooden girls littered with bubonic beauty, the blistering bare feet scorched with volcanic hearts and baleful smiles of blooming cruelty, the burnt, charred bones in the honey suckle sand, barbaric shouts of soldiers and the rattle and ring of rusty shackles, the shore-line cocaine boats, tin-shack paradise of soothing sturdy chains, the scaled slums and coagulated blood-acres of caustic white-sweetness, a submarine of cocoa, the sweltering canal scent of succulent sap, fields of sugar-cane, the sugar-sky cans of corn whiskey from the sun-house, sun-shine when we die.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

macanudo hyde park

Candy apples embedded in the ugly dank brown carpet, this lavish hotel is a vast expanding red slum of intoxicated patrons, dolled prostitutes and coins on the bedsheets. Attractive lepers and storm bugs under the pillow.

Shotgun on a nightstand, my heavy revolver at my hip, another pistol near the sink, smaller caliber for concealing , the slow drip of a busted bronze faucet, a droplet of blood, spectacles askew, my overcoat and belt hanging on the doorknob. The lobby of funny hats, elegant costumes and pretty feminine accents, servers and errands, unyielding array of candles, a remote balustrade of chandeliers and electrical sparks from a camera flash.

 The spine-like staircases navigating the velvet air like charmed snakes, open and closing onyx-framed doors, an obese priest, ancient mechanical elevators cast golden with strange eyes, the magnificent ball room, a perfumed ceiling of flowers, somber slender statues and lonesome bells ringing, room 104, a silver key rolled gently in my fingers, heart softly pounding, amber mahogany cabinets locked, pill box pine-tree heaven, a flourishing plantation of cotton and florid slaves howling under the whip of torture, moon crickets singing, reflecting waters, the angry hum and rattle of a T-model, liquor barrels on the back of a bedraggled truck shift and stumble with the rocks in the dirt road. Sunrise, beauty could be love, My fancy woolen suit, vegetable tanned John Lobb's, roughly six hundred and sixty dollars in my wallet. An etched note sewn into my chest, your name, your face, your ink dissolved in tears.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

soul of a spider

Light rain, 54 degrees. I stare at the melancholy gutted walls, the gentle slope awning of a dilapidated chapel, a flowered courtyard littered with shards of ebony. Motherless tiles and ugly green linoleum. A box of pristine thumb-nails and burnt paint canister. A makeshift morgue, aged chrome and dusted stainless-steel shelves, abnormal and abstract instruments, question marks within the faded marble tile, a cruelly cold coal chamber for burning the swollen-elephantine bodies plagued with cloudy influenza and the red masque of bloated death. Black minnow buckets for the putrid fluid, pans of rancid rat poison, the watchful eyes in the cracks, crumbs of French bread, brittle sticks festering like wood hearts infected by frost spiders. The Bubonic wing, the typhoid scripture and gospel of tuberculosis, the dying embers of Russian consumption, the cholera colored wood floors curled from the constant drizzle of early morning rain, a diseased novella on a windowsill.

Sparks on the bruised horizon, a low purple abrasion bludgeoned with crimson arrows and yellow jaundice scaffolds. Cinnamon lost eyes, a child's melted toy in the clay, the sad hallways of a state hospital, psychiatric ward. The exposed frames, a waspish food plate badly bending from weather damage, a tarnished coin in a soft drink slot, the holes in the door and inside marrow, bitter rust and horrible fungus. Icy chemical stalagmites, an artery of rolling carts and inky medicine, an asylum atop a rolling cobalt hill, a sleepy view of the crumbling statue through the fingertips of a broken window. Busted globes of glass, abandoned staircases and vicious debris sick with pine-salt and poison ivy. A drowsy galaxy of waxen webs and silky strewn candy wrappers. The orange fibers of asbestos, the malformed insulation and remnants of a corroded metal patient bed, haunted hospitals howling with tortured ghosts, the little angels in malodorous burlap bags, small piles of blood-cloth in a rotten coffin, the miniature skeletons scattered in casket-puzzles of bone and brine, strangely contorted silhouettes walking and whispering, the hurtful smiles dancing wildly before my rabid eyes, endless hallways and somber shadows, tattered veils of forgotten curtains, the hollowed blackness among the falling diamond dust.

Monday, December 19, 2011

maduro gurkha fuerte

On a South African elephant trail, I spy a sunset safari and a sailing gazelle in the sand, it has dark chocolate eyes that are barely alive, it's guts torn and pulled like a knotted and tangled anchor rope, the shipyards are alone and quiescent, majestic towers and machine-gun turrets, disarming flies, broken goblets of precious clay, oily pastels and butterflies, hollowed burned out tanks at the bay. It lays there in a slick velvet heap, thick red gluts and deeply ebony matted texture, white foam from the mouth, the last vapors of a starless dream. There are wind orchids all fucked and askew, heroin jungles and petrol bombs unexploded. Fragments of angry ghosts caught in the razor-wire, a flat canopy pock marked with cobra blood, I feel its remote sadness, the unbearable darkness shroud, the entombed casks and aged barrels of cognac, an adolescent onyx soldier equally gut shot and breathing in heavy leaden gasps, his wild cricket eyes terrified and drifting like clouds.

Stark, raving, madness and trumpets blaring, I can feel death and happiness, the enslaved rain gardens and dry leaves, howling streets and empty book coffins, abandoned buildings, bombed automobiles and sparks from a traffic robot. Knavish voyeurs, blue panties and the ghastly pierced blots of pumice. I feel ballistic, a writing fuck miracle chased by swarms of bullet-head niggers, shotgun hole in my heart, frozen stems of brisk violets, packs of newport, orange beret. With unfolded smooth arms, a luxurious; curious ocean and portraits of sliding glass rails, robotic ashes in the snow, Egyptian cotton, dove-less wings and stormy coal-tablets, escaping animals, my unhappy and verily meshing subtle forest of lash and hot sticky balm, inky eyelids and rare untouched iris of shining eyes.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

unblemished

Outside, Whiskey barrels and cigar coffins, palsy people and obliterated sun-shards, sun-gardens and faded linoleum sun-safari's. Rotting stables, overly, bitterly astonished faces, the chupacabra laughing and howling at the soft, old day. A screen-door Jesus, sober paint splotches and hollering buckets of shivering, melting snow, raw leprosy and fake plastic carousel of pretend, pretty girls.

Inside, Sun grown, Rum Belicoso, aged Spanish Cedar cases, silver locket, the slick, sweet succulent aromatic curl of you, smooth caramel hip ensnared by your phosphorescent pink satin veil, mocha moth at a sea-lantern, ample landscape masterpiece, work of art, shore-line, sun-light haze of an aficionado's craft, a calming alluring contrast like a poem, verily poised naked, a mosaic sash of shadowy maduro skin, sad fractals of the window blinds, vinyl basket of butterflies, a baleful valet of candied chocolate eyes, petite drink of cognac, licorice and lavender hand-written letters, scented  lilac twilight of luscious opulent delight, lightly bitten twice, laconic and lovely valley of you, laying there like a pensive and purring angel on the bed.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

war

Ballistic writing, be nice if Israeli bombs grow fat, cinder Islam and every waking body, the mantis and cloth drapes of each dwelling, ribbons and spirals of dust, watching the skies bludgeon with aching fever and bruise-swelling. Ashen faces charred with hot white-heat, scaffolds dry and bleached, endless trash-avenues of dirt and starving dogs, an arm, a leg, a pair of small feet. Perished horse, broken bottles and knees, A lavish royal palace, poetic nuclear breeze, melting bodies with faces laughing, death dancing on the skeletal leaves.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

terse gaze

..to write this way is like raving or a cloud.
-Dostoevsky

Watchful eyes and the charms of our idols, the icons and passing, falling towers. A ballistic capital, the bells and frost morgues, a funeral of leafy wheel-barrows and inky tablets, the insides of a dead soul, glass jars in the street, library cataclysm, the literary beauties and raw youth. Niagara downpour, lemony fingers, tsunami debris, inhuman cattle herds, the slow-slated stone tiles and awning of dozy, lethargic roofs, the slothful arms of sleepy zombies, the urgent surge and precinct assault, a cutlass machete, starving windmill, howling apocalypse.