Tag: grain

• who wins the skirmish when no one dies 
  clever old fool you managed to chain one 
  of the oldest deathless ones whose job was 
  death which screwed up the works since he 
  couldn’t work so how can we eat when 
  
  a week later the chicken’s head 
  still begs for grain it cannot store or how 
  do we please these greatest and most 
  fickle gods when a hundred perfect 
  
  oxen with golden horns embossed with blood 
  cannot take their rest and the sheep slipping 
  on its intestines tomorrow shakes its 
  
  head and bleats at you again and through the 
  night so you see the boulder was justice 

  November 28, 2025

  blood, boulder, chicken, deathless, gods, grain, horns, ozen, sheep, skirmish, tomorrow

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What do we make of our song-free Orpheus
  fumbling Odysseus almost Lucifer with
  fingers of flame Perhaps he remembers the light
  from that distant place and justice so a gift of
  grain and cocoa for the amazing muses of

  the mountain top and the other women, dead
  imprisoned tunneling, then old Ouranos grows
  a pair and loses them and him in waves with no—
  Though our Prometheus believes no one of the

  underworld and darkens his face before they lie
  about his friend not yet dead—they don’t get the joke
  but the shadow brother did break the rule so the

  sea again and driving back half a Eurydice
  reversed—so eyes forward or you’re back in it, baby.

  October 10, 2025

  brother, cocoa, eurydice, grain, light, Lucifer, mountain, muses, Odysseus, Orpheus, Ouranos, Prometheus, underworld, women

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• I’ll try to go another way smoothly
  keeping my mouth to my mouth though I do
  need medicine more magic and glasses
  and new ones next year and where is the best
  place to stop and find a tree make a bad

  joke at the diner have some dinner and
  straight to bed without dinner the phone does
  ring but we’re finished with that and if we
  reach out the search often always ends in

  pornography which in a certain light
  may be a metaphor though no these are
  not the goddesses you are looking for

  so offer grain offer hands in
  prayer make it clean and start again

  January 10, 2025

  diner, dinner, glasses, grain, hands, light, metaphor, mouth, phone, pornography, prayer, tree

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• what he still does as a goat or swelling grain
  

  (First published in Bones.)

  May 17, 2024

  goat, grain

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• in a smear of ink but let’s play

  Yahtzee so tired of all my

  jokes but how much for

  anyway turn off the hearings

  and listen to my stomach

  full of primordial

  soup for a bluer sky when

  we all have a moment

  to floss again and plant

  some grain or at least

  some new suspicions

  July 22, 2022

  grain, hearings, ink, jokes, soup, suspicions

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