maetl

Poetry

The Bay

How many roads we take that lead to Nowhere, The alley overgrown, no meaning now but loss: Not that veritable garden where everything comes easy.

In my craft or sullen art

In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or…

A Ship in a Bottle

All of the arts of illusion are like this: even crafting the poem which steers the flat hulk of words through its narrow neck then lofts mainsails by manipulating strings, exerting influence.       The…

Multimathematical Immaterialities

The abnihilization of the etym by . . . the first lord of Hurtreford expolodotonates through Parsuralia with an ivanmorinthorrorumble fragoromboassity amidwhiches general uttermost confussion are…

Just Chemicals

They say love is just chemicals In your bloodstream, tiny baubles, Inscrutable in their subtle action. You say love is a physical force, An emotion greater than any other, So impossible to…

Clouds

That outré architecture the clouds! I came out dog tired my eyes smeared with words & saw them. I had to laugh. Nature exceeds me in everything including folly. That's truth enough…

Snow storm on canvass

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Waking Dreams

Charles Limb and Allen R. Braun have been observing the brains of jazz musicians when they improvise.

Cubicide

Dark clouds of thought were unproven examples Of the principle of doubt transforming the future They assumed the management of progress As psychic discipline for fools and thieves Readily…

The Three Swans

There once was a time On the banks of an Icelandic river marsh Where there lived a fisherman with his wife And they had three daughters. Then came one day When the three little daughters all…

Thoughts of a Lonely Programmer

The writer is doubtless stricken with writers block And can thus, for weeks, vanish into a myriad of dark rooms Where conversation dangles under glistening rows of liquor. The programmer is expected…

Botany Downs

However many gaze across the evening At these crowded tentacles of suburb? Skulking gibboard ghettos bordered By sanded concrete fringes, locking The mediocre and the restless, Fuming with resentment, For…

The Original Technologist

In the communities of the Paleolithic, archeologists often find a single dwelling, isolated from the others, at the boundary between the community and the wilds of the world beyond; this is…

Ethical Implosion

Michael Moore: "Bush lied to the American people" Bill O'Reilly: "It's not a lie if you believe it to be true" The O'Reilly Factor: FOXNews, July 27, 2004 Wow - the greatest irony in…

Riprap

Lay down these words before your mind like rocks.

The Tragedy of Hip

"You solipsistic bastard", she said As if what she really wanted was a justification For why the earth was simply circling Her own sun, that vainglorious obsession, A swelling black hole closet Hoarding…

The Unremitting Voice of Nightly Streams

The unremitting voice of nightly streams That wastes so oft, we think, its tuneful powers, If neither soothing to the worm that gleams Through dewy grass, nor small birds hushed in…

On Mirrors and Bridges

The synthesis of form Is not as some have thought A process whereby time Unwravels the intentions Of a hidden creator. But removing the teleological Source of all life Does not make the universe Cold…

Quantum People

What error correcting code could cross the much vaunted gap Of people as particles, or functions of an ever fluctuating wave? Attraction and repulsion are forces, of matter, they don't, At least…

Writers Block

So stood the young man On the verge of never holding back, But never still yet Oblivious to praise, He could only focus on the chinks in his armour Small steps in a search…

Alphabets

From time to time we take our pen in hand And scribble symbols on a blank white sheet. Their meaning is at everyone's command; It is a game whose rules…