Three Poems

Hello friends,

I’m excited to announce that my third full-length collection, THE ROBOTS OF BABYLON, will be published later in the year. To celebrate, I have published a leaflet featuring the book’s opening poems. This leaflet is strictly limited to 49 signed and numbered copies and is available via my website.

Now, a few poems….

NEW MOON (Anagrammed Lines)

The Moon is a shy, bent tulip
that into blue symphonies
tilts a numb honey. It hopes 
to be sun, paints the homily —
but, then, this is only a poem….

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ZEUS AND OLYMPUS (Palindrome)

So:
Ah, Cronus!
We name open Olympus—aware still a deity rots onsite.
My Mnemosyne! Go next, far. Cognise. Resume:
No Muses lessen a Titan—a Titaness—else sum one Muse.
Resin, go craft xenogeny, so men.
My Metis: no story tied all.
Its era was up—
my lone poem a new sun
or Chaos.

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LOCH NESS (Ottava Rima, Pangram)

Upon the vernal equinox,
when all our fictions come to pass,

a shadow leans across the rocks.
Beneath the water, clouds amass:

a nebula absorbs the loch’s
illusions — hoaxes, dreams in glass,

the jostling haze of history’s whims —
until, at last, the creature swims.