29.1.23

Four Poems by petro c.k.

Heuristic Purge

An orchestra of
redrawn bigotry is 
indifferent to 
unbiblical others
their unguided objections
decry with hybrid knuckles
venting injured 
prurient voices 
their reason for being 
so loud 


Beryl of the Belted Poses

Seas psychologically dressed 
impartial to a presence 
in the darkness between 
long distances of life every written day 

The central lilt
to this modest world 
A nearby garden moved 
in a calmed hurry

Staying at either end of the
parentheses hotel 
the sheep with no beginning
hung in countryside hubbubbery  

Maybe they'll sit in characteristic jests
A living forest senses
who was just the theater horrific 
in the breadth of both kitchens 



Flamed for the Sound Within This Place

A symphony that birds the theatrics 
of all previous broken hearts 
that have run dry long ago 

Another day up in the sheet 
became written by then
in a sunken magazine 

Still the only static pileated image
of shallow silver waves 
to a whippoorwill passing by 
drifting deeper in the same sky 

The ancient star did not know 
that the bees knock on his door  
every time he was alone

From his eyes to his face 
leaving the house with his tombstone
in his own words 
crickets 


Quagga Muscle

Whether
here nor there
Not by half or by 
the other half 
The lines run until they don't 
folding of the first day 
turns into the ocean
ancient families washed away 
in a tidal draught 
halfway through the cemetery
Buckle up the earth 
always too much 
or not enough 
invasion or
extinction 
our regimen is not done 
until the tendon snaps