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And the Stone Man Said


And the Stone Man Said

Serve me up dirty
filthy and ill-used
I am the cartoon
at the end of dawn

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And the Stone Man Said

Serve me up dirty
filthy and ill-used
I am the cartoon
at the end of dawn

A mother’s prayer
quick lips of sorrow
kissed
echo of the new night

God help us
we are slain
by moments of anger
it hurts finally
hurts no more

Echoes of woe
cry the new city
built upon pastures
flowers of doom

Don’t cry me down
ye awful lament
scarlet promises
sea of new blood

Following empty
you are what lies next
stone heart
eye of moon

Fingernail traces
eyelashes
weeping
a lone figure
intolerant shadow

Maybe she’s wicked
lips apart magick
Her tongue of flame
passion divides

Old soldiers
and new lovers
pretendering peace
a fortune of skin

We are the pale
standing outside you
a misting of star-shine
penumbra undone

Don’t you dare wake me
with mute invitation
Where dragons have flown
my heart is gone

Our cloak becomes
a withering wall
Beneath the veil
a hermit resides

She is cooking fish
to feed her man slave
a bit of wine
to hurry him down

He places an ear
on the pit of her navel
A child passes through
the face of a dime
It ain’t Hitler
It’s Ike

Hurry on singers
watchers impatient
They only came to hear
the end of your song

and so it is father
whose breast is without us
whose heart is within us
whose belt is upon us

and mother stirs the soup
chicken noodle it is
no chicken
no noodle
soup nonetheless

A caravan gathers
round an open-mouthed child
He points to their camels
strange alien hump

An hour of madness
must I possess
a vision of angels
heart of the beast

Last night I saw you
bare assed naked
Bombs made your cities
and titties dissolve

Who were you then
with your crack in the sky
Who are you now
laying spread before me

There are brave new voices
islands of silence
where cave people dwell
residue of shame

I want a new blanket
to cover my faces
to shield me from the
I want the wind in my home

Old man bite your tongue
Your gun lies dead in your hand
Cover yourself
You are disgusting to the new children

A grave in the city
where geese go to graze
a feast of bones
and hollow moments

Pigeon shit in the sand
the mortar of giants
brave deeds spoken
crumbling walls

Visions of paper
pitiful wisdom
the shaman in flames
who laughs the fool

Bruised sky of my face
bitter sweet of mine heart
Divide the peace of me
make arrows and napalm

And the Stone Man Said was published in the anthology Storm Cycle by Kind of a Hurricane Press in 2015

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