danielwilcox

Of Things Past and Future
© Daniel Wilcox

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 humankindless’ 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 ‘steeded’ carousel of terror,

Only the parabolic words

Of one wanderer, a harlequin

Hanged by reasons of the world.

First published in Half Way Down the Stairs

Daniel Wilcox, a former activist, teacher, and wanderer from Montana to the Middle East, casts his lines out through the cosmos' vast infinite space in Anthrozine, Moria, Lunarosity, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, The Recusant, The Clockwise Cat, etc. His poem "The Space Clown" appeared in both Abandoned Towers and Right Hand Pointing. Dark Energy, a book of his poetry, was published in 2009 by Diminuendo Press. "The Faces of Stone", based on his time in the Middle East, came out in The Danforth Review and Danse Macabre. Daniel lives with a speculative novel The Feeling of the Earth, a second volume of poems Psalms, Yawps, and Howls, and his mystery-loving wife on the central coast of California.

Websites:
http://psalmsyawpshowls.weebly.com
http://seaquaker.com