Of Things Past and Future

 

Of Things Past and Future 

The monstrous golems
Of things past, the colossus

Of rot and bloat; gaseous dreams
Rising to dominance,
Oh gangrene remembrances.

These wretched night stallions
Galloping in human-kindless’ place

On the carnival-go-round
Of carnal (chambered) knowledge--
These stanchions under the brooding roof.

Awake in this penitential night
Human awareness scratched across

A black-boarded mind
Of inner side-show sky overcast
Waiting by the kafka-revolving door.

Endless spinning, the mirrored mis-hope
Of history’s leviathan launches

Bacchanal killing of the go-round
By skin-thin souls, carny totems of the
Masque, redded from 'poe' to pole 

But all to stanch this 'juglarnaunt'
This endless carousel of terror,

Only the parabolic words
Of one wanderer, a harlequin
Hanged by reasons of the world.

1st pub. in Half Way Down the Stairs
and then in Static Movement

 

Introduction to a website of writer Daniel E. Wilcox, a reflective blogger, pebble-poet, fiction creator...

and kickabout mutant traveler of the mind, human history, the world, and, speculatively (stretching into deep time), the cosmos.

My wandering, wondering lines have appeared in many magazines including Contemporary American Voices, vox poetica, Dead Snakes, Word Riot, Centrifugal Eye, Camel Saloon, 

Tipton Poetry Journal, The Medula Review, Full of Crow, Front Porch Review, The New Verse News, Willows Wept Review, Eunoia Review, Quill and Parchment, Halfway Down the Stairs, The Clockwise Cat, Frame Lines, The Externalist, The Driftwood Review, Western Friend Magazine, Flutter Poetry Journal, Poetry Pacific, Frostwriting, Words-Myth, Ink Sweat & Tears, Erbacce, Static Movement, Counterexample Poetics, and Unlikely Stories IV.