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JESUS WINKED
Jesus winked at me, Nan, I exclaimed, shocked and ecstatic, come here quick and see. I remember those eyes clear and crystalline as a crisp April morning showering their aquablue blessings upon that tiny white cabin in Penn’s Woods. I blinked and rubbed my own just to be sure, and – wink – there he…
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PALACE OF DREAMS
Felix arrives at work each dayDeep deep in the soil belowTwo miles beneath the surfaceThey built the office long agoThe exact time is classifiedSome call it Palace of DreamsDecoders complete their workHidden away from unworthy mindsWhere subconscious vibes ariseIt’s the place where dreams beginBubbling up from sunken brooksAnd passionate rivers of fireBrilliant men learned to…
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APOCALYPSO
She wore ninety nine veilsCovering every part of herThe drums began to pulseThe flutes began to flutterThe first veil droppedNinety eight more to goHypnotic hours and epochsWe’ve been lost in our lustIt’s not what we can seeThat draws our eyesBut what we can’tWhile one veil remainedWe could still each imagineOur own private paradiseJust beyond that…
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DOGMA
The sheikh took a drag from the unfiltered cigarette, then pushed the smoke through his pursed lips like a steam train. Then he replied: “This diversionary world branched from the real world 15 thousand years ago. It began as just a tiny aberration, a wall constructed around a garden in Mesopotamia, in order to conceal…
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ESCHATON
The eschaton was born from a microscopic holeIn the recoiling ground of paradiseWhere the once-bitten apple struck it,Black seed of destruction to come,Pregnant mother of hope.The children of men shrunk backFrom this riot of the godsThey erected towers to plug the gapAnd paved the latitudes and longitudes,But the divisions only widened and spreadRaining down from…