Erstwhile Ephemera – Jonathan Hine
October 5, 2021
i hereby renounce the capacity to be attacked
cigarette through fingers undefined
calloused palms
enfolded completely
letting always from my weakness
& in this way,
wasted.
it lay there now, concentrated
the kernel in itself,
a false resurgence.
set face to face under hemispherical
ceilings,
swift passes in the air
out of terror for its
hallowed combustion
& towards the sky
clotted screams
will merge
bukowski spoke of the gods
inner crescent outlines metastasize according to the grandeur of the
reverberating god’s
empty angelic clarity
with the soft haze of
outpouring bones they
smother landscapes with highly flammable dreams and
interwoven wave apparatus
deep dark fusion tones
spiral unconscious
as every conjecture of chance acts as a conduit
for the force of circumstance
Previously Published in Cavity Magazine
an inward light
independent
of the
structures
illumed
shines through
this real world
location with
multiple exposure
stroboscopic
time images
lightly flowing
towards
sharper focus
at 6 to 12
frames
per second
Previously Published in Academy of the Heart and Mind
death held a rose
the lifted death-head grinned
stiffened whiteness
and passed into smoke
the empty act was now dispersed,
come out and
let go of
probably something
someone once did
by someone
it used to be
no reason to be
standing there
without even
a resemblance
to human woe,
though possibly
still imposed upon
by a limit
on infinity
Previously Published by Horror Sleaze Trash