the price of her grey eyed pity
wasn’t pity though
was it it was
a nod
to possibility,
that near beyond
ol em herself’s
dwelling place;
see ol grumpfuss bluehair didn’t know
how to find lightning outside of the sky
but the lady gazed a spark in a poor shepherd’s eye, got all zingy with hope and the maybe just maybe this might work like in star trek when the only option is blah blah blah
and lo, the bridle is ours
let us separate the saucer section
onward and on and such second star to the right stuff we have to be lucky right and ready–
but it ain’t looking good hoss.
all the books say pity, it was pity
(a lie i sort of made up without looking. a captain’s hunch, a flamboozle)
the gods are gonna have to go
no contact or gray rock
the reins were not for us
to conquer stuff, but for a sad man
to ride a pegasus
what say you
did it work?
athens is burning
ice sheets are crumbling
faster than we thought
there’s just not enough god
damn poetry in these poems
not enough hamburgers
in my bunker the locusts
have waited 17 years to click
and grind this summer down
someone just died alone.
someone else. and another
another. turns out nobody
cares that there’s aliens
they are trying to make
a more human mouse
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First LexPoMo poem in two years yeehaw thank you all gentle and gruff readers.
sharp and cunning her grey eyes sliced the premature ice sheet before it crumpled crumbled into water wet
Beautifully nebulous, this one, and outstanding lines. Funny, I just wrote a Trekkie inspired piece weeks ago, and I am not a trekkie 😂
Doubly interesting—that piece didn’t mention the 17-year cicada, but I wrote an essay the same time that centered on them!
I really like how this looked on the page. I enjoyed reading it. Thank you.
Thanks guys! Joseph yes, I have been trying to be freer and looser in my imagination just for playing around. I look at these poems as practice. The references are to athena, poseidon, em is emily dickinson. I was positing whether mankind was worthy of Athena’s gift of the bridle. Anyway. Thanks y’all!
That was wonderful. Write mooooooore!!!