Horseman/ArchangelA Poem by R.J Calzonetti Wrote this 2 years ago Horseman/Archangel Shadow Echo
“Nobody loves {me/you}, nobody cares” “Nobody loves {me/you}, maybe {I’ll/we’ll} go eat worms”
“Why did it have to be this way {at/in} the end” “Why did it have to be this way {at/in} the end” I stand alone, inside-out; Twisting shape into nothingness You don’t even know
“I have everything, what more can I ask for? Nothing, at all” I wrote myself into existence Just to speak my words to no one Painted myself into the dark corner
*“Crying”* *“Like a b***h”*
*+“Feeling your sting down inside me”+* *+But+* “(I’m) not dying {for/from} it”
“In this {hole/howl} that is me” And yet still I am Nowhere near {full/everything} {of/I} {anything/am} {Human/functional}, at all Drawing {out/on} the horizon; [Fluttering dove cover ruddy coloured rags] Sheets wheat beacon featureless Steeples outreaching clouds amalgamation On these concrete {walls/constellation} (What wasn’t) Like a shadow of [my shadow] Echo of {an/my} {echo/voice} Try not to wake it, try I {am/do} {still/not} {here/care} [for you] And yet; the band plays on They know no different {Terpsichorean/polaroid} clockwork; {Motionless/vivid/dull/timeless} nostalgia Light and dark; intermingling Instruments rusted by creation; [continue on] Still; yet moving, {forward/somehow/warped/demented/someway} As no one listens To change To {absurdity/metamorphosis} [{unspoken/alone}] To me To the hand that becomes a star in the night sky To the fool not knowing anything but what {will/could} {be/have} To the outstretched custard of white wisping cloud And the unflinching beauty {of/not} {what/to} {once/be} {was/denied}
“{Shapes/shades} of colours are all I {see/feel/am”}
“I’m not afraid of {fading/failing/dying/living}” “I stand alone” A clown in a fool’s skin Blindly watching the shadow of {a/the} morning sun As it shape-shifts its (black-winged-orb) {Rays/shiver} (tipping these teetering scales words shambling, back, forth, moon waxing,) Waning stuttering light) back into perspective Sentencing periods of time; {dashes/dabs} of pen brushstrokes [Smear each other in black] [Tonguing the whites of clouds] Bodies of words To obsidian penitentiary (of graphite grafted alabaster) Charred armadas obelisk carve polymerized scythes; wines hieroglyph Lifting the featherweight of this earth crushed like an apple Grasping enlightenment Reaching for the precipice; Shooting stars with blank stares, Loaded bullet points, hollow (finger)tips Frescoed Sol; roping opal Kaleidoscope coal corona golden Cauterizing tides kaleidoscope Libraries prairies; trellises Eldritch skeletons yellowing parhelion Velvety evangelical cellos Enveloping gowns flowery bowels unravel Boughs malleable enamel Entangling bangle haloes gold corona Silver amaryllises gilded Wilderness stitching pitch glyphs eclipsing Forests floral corridors contort; Pouring ores of origami palm {tsunami/collages} In the forever empty hand of {God/man} {Man/god} Mangled by the shape that has {made/shaped} him Still seeing his {opposition/opposite} tangled In the mirror This is who I (really) am; nothing, at all [Because its lonely] [At the {top/bottom}] {And/maybe/because} I know no better [{And/maybe/because}] [The entropy of life speaks to the anguished soul] {And/maybe/because} Suicide Is [{merely/just} another(s’)] {Resolve/way/reason/promise/excuse/confession/answer/exodus/struggle/expression/resolution}] To {live/suffer/persevere/survive} Through the nothingness that this world is, (blind) As if {We/I} cared to know the difference Between Gilded silver pillowy lilies Sigil squiggly silken milquetoast Clouds gowned malleable Flowering bowels of Babel’s palaces Meadows envelope sunsetting Ebony tendril folding incorporeal form Hanging in the balance, so pitiful Light and darkness; unable to know up from down Stuck [(forever)] dreaming [of mementos (that cannot be again)] Frozen static, fluctuating, defibrillating In this infinite {World/ocean/web} Of grey(s) [Because whatever happens; I can’t change the past] [And maybe I don’t want to] [Whatever happens,] [{Happens/will-happen}] [I love no one] [(And) no one loves me] *[Do you?]* Why {should/do} {I/you} (even) care? Sometimes (some) {things/flowers/people} need to {regress/decay/die} in order to {Grow/bloom/live} {I/you’re} {don’t/there} {even/I} {feel/am} {a/still} {thing/here}
Confetti Machete
Confetti machete tarnished Eclipse abyssal glyphs lithium pitch Twisted stitches whiskey Bristled nickel Styx Elms envelope yellow trellises Velvet parhelion dawn tsunami Origami camouflaging collages Auburn fog columns vase obelisk Blond taboggoning mahogany Tawny palms ensemble bottomless eclipse Abyssal glyphs august whiskey Nickeled crystalline lithium pit The winter sky; a white page, Blank, void, static, stillness, Blanched planting, painting oasis; Out-branching lanterns Anther hippocampus, An expanse of chrysanthemums Forests forming torrents Coral corridors torn orchard’s amorphous Primrose windows woven Oceans distorting uncorked roping locomotion Rushing lustre custard crusted Combustible constructing Fluctuating paint matrix stitch Oasis facing pages frameless Abyss wisping citrus photosynthesis Bottomless bliss whispering Lithium imprison incinerating linden linen Crimson rhythm spinning schism Cinnamons rhine sublime diamond Unwinding spiral irises Concubine hyacinth kaleidoscope Phantasmagorical contorting Mortuary’s buried canaries Flaring parables snow chromosomes posy Rosaries marionette crepuscular Intestines nectar mecca outstretching perfection Nocturne ochre ambrosial photographic Axe blackness alabaster casket Hazel maelstrom golden Exfoliating coronas Sol polaroid coiling Forging organisms obsidians Ridges bridging slithering rivers tingeing Ribbons timbers infinity Equilibriums Stygian grinning ingot fingertips Ricochet aegis opal gladiolus Supernova lay creationism’s cataclysm Unravel Saturn’s cadaver antlers Anchoring blank rancour lycanthropy The chamomile asylum violets Island violins subdividing fibrously Gaia disquietingly disqualifying Nihilism gins frigid twin bishops Goddess transmogrified ivory Dehydrated dilated dilapidated maple Ebony penitentiary clarets Clarinets dressing ecstasy in nothing Percussion thrust through The wound entombing rouge blooms Nuclear fuchsia protruding Parachute oozed pewter cumulus Nyx Pesto rose embroidery oily Corduroy Sol golden primordial Floral territory orbiting Chlorophyll gilded silk pillowing figurine Stringing rings entangling bangles Strangled amber bandages fringe Amaranth panther fantasizing wildfire Pyres Poseidon rising horizon Spiders formaldehydes choir Knives colliding geyser into maroon Moon illuminatings’ basins Snaking bronzing transmogrifications Interlacing braised constellations Shapeless space unfolding Magnolia cold ozone frozen comatose Closing contrasting clocked Cognition cigars carve carousel caricatures Kerosene greenery weaving Cedar cathedral fields peel creased Creams beacon swim dim Scintillating glade suede halo Exodus bless sepulchre purr Hurricane parading frayed braids Rays of jade serenading Glaciers fur pergola molten torque Forking porcelain incorporeal Laurels melded elegies shredded petal Malevolent heaven assemblage Gauze onyx chrysalis, pistons twisted Mandolin skin ringing caliginous Pidgins wilderness; ivy skyscraper Blotch phosphorescent wrestling Crescents vessel nestled echo decibel Smouldering Sol gold embroidered Molding corona orb(it)ing chlorophyll Emerald tendrils entangles Bangled jasmine chandeliers; dandelion eye Papyrus Nile fibrously hieroglyphic whisking picturesque depths terrestrial Pastels asphodel elm umbrella trellises wisp flickering lithium Nickel sickle depicting quicksand avalanche blanche mechanical bells Beneath beacon reaching out of hell; avenging heaven The depths of heaven’s outstretched hands; Grasping elastic crafting platinum Blackened masquerade, Hades pages, empty hatred; Pulled roses from the centre of the earth, Perched rebirth relentlessly entering The end of knotted assemblages Red penitentiary; buried cotton paradise, Rising horizons, islands rhinestone Subdividing kaleidoscope, open metamorphosis Clouded Valhalla valleyed Unravel malleable cowl flowering gallery Palisade shawls autumnal Hollowing comets drawn august talisman I crave the summer rain; But instead I am (greeted by) Cold, cracked ice And I drag out the carpet to welcome your {dark/new} heart Reverberating in this The sound of silence; the madness in stillness This Only this White page Imitation, imitating all Now you know Who I am F****r Just this [This is who I am; this] No one ({at/but} {all/this}) Nothing I sit still on the stage and quote the bard Walk between the razor edge of the unwritten page curling in on itself like a split tongue of flame Having never known poetry Never known love {or/from} {tragedy/hate}, {Rejection/betrayal} {or/from} faith I sit still amidst the stillness which I am As the whole world turns to dust around me Witnesses despair, destruction, death To new breath I hold a finger I ask for silence, [one moment; (chained up its own prison of black paperback lines)] *{Infinite/infinitesimal}* [({And/but}) you’d (probably) know no {better/different}] An echo Swallowed whole I am, I am, I am The brick house at the end of jagged sidewalk The voice locked in-between the unfathomable cells of one’s mind The anger over the epithet drawn like wounds across my face *The tongue that stumbled; twisted in its own {mass-(of)/mottled-knotted-scarf}* *I am* The shadow left alone, praying (to Nihilism) on the {obsidian/sidewalk} to an alabaster sun *I am* *Madnesses fabric, flannel piano caught in the knot of a single chord; Revelations stained in the oily clouds* And the innumerable {sands-(of-/dandelions} *Stranded, left behind in the sleeping depths of desiccated will* *{That/this} [and only {that/this}]* +*(T)here*+ +*Still (t)here*+ *I am* Lost in the depths of the storm clouds withering rhythms Reason I cannot hear Emotion I cannot {feel/grasp/understand}
“In for the kill, I feel nothing” “All my memories are filled with hate” “And I can think of no joy that endures”
But “a thing of beauty, I know” “Will never fade away” The love you never gave {me/brother} I give to you
Can’t Deny (Beginning and The End)
Flannel enamel ravel gelato Wildflowers cowl javelins avalanche Graffiti weaving helix eclipse; Cathedrals peel back black Astronauts’ gouache phosphorus Blossomed arrases blotched Flock onyxes binge photosynthesis Rhythms’ scimitar ribboning Obsidian prisms enkindling Prisons ginseng crimson Stitching pitch lithiums Ricocheting bouquets braid halos gold Corona exfoliating paving Waves’ entangling bangles bramble botanical Skydive in high thighs bloom aluminum noon monsoons And the moon, it always came… it came too late To be swallowed alive like a memory by the shadow of the sun Like blowing out birthday candles [in darkness]
I Am
(I am) A flat smooth rock, skipping across ({The/Ontario} lake {in/I/of} {summer/remember/glass}) Pulling along the wave line of my shadow; Cast into the deep {Mountainous/pale/oasis/pages/serrated/velvet} moon Retuning centrifuging unity Blooming pews doubloon perfume Luminous entombing ooze Jewelry pewter yews aluminum, Plumes illuminated parachute Scooping chartreuse’s noose [Saturns tattered Nirvana] [Amber lantern cavern stratosphere pier] Rosaries imploding chromosomes Frozen posies totem Loose translucence roofs Recuperated, laces Faces mirrored ethereal Penetrating creation in Forward thorn organisms torn cornea Watching cyclops cottony Debauchery cross Blotch phosphorus dock Blossoming arrases Clockwork oxen’s denim webbing red nebula Cold corona exfoliating glaciers pasted grey acres vaccination Duvets crochet halos; Gold Sol monochrome tome embroidery There is (no excuse) No reason I simply wanted to watch the empty sunset And skip over the better {Parts-(of)/years(-of-this-driftwood-life)} {Tripping/swallowing/drifting} over Every orifice of what I knew The still heart beats for you; [let the pulse tremble, and trill] Buried in my body of {words/roots} All between [{these/four/talking/alabaster}] walls *+[This room confines me]+* Nostalgia hasn’t quite yet {Remembered/forgot(ten)/conformed-to} What it means to die [I cut down my family tree] And built this full house of cards] [Is it not beautiful craftmanship? See] The crying stump stares at me with its irises; *+[It’s watery snaking (quaking quarry) Current of scarves in the middling winter, Slither obsidian ribboning]+* I watch the wind tumble through A forest of vengeful green trunks; that would have loved to throw me out [Branching out with low hanging fruits, bitten by the hand that feeds on the apples of my eye] [The corpse (socket)eye moon;] [The sun of a falling leaf] [You made me, brother] [You, {did/this}, not me] [{Warm/worm} in the {apple/core}] *[Losing everything I was; In the chaotic reflection of {tomorrow/morning}]* On open waters [No hatred, no fear] I kill Simply to live [To die] [Satisfied, purposeful] There is no [other] way {for/around} {me/it} And there never {will/really} {be/was} [Simply action, a river that continues to flow] [Like the permanent sun] [In a desolate sky] [A scarecrow in the golden fields] [Watching the earth turn] *[In its violent seizure] [Its drunk drumming of unorganized] [Un-orchestrated moire, mottled] [Maze mass mol mosaic,] [Mimicking moored makeshift mortal] [(Mandala morphing magentas marred) madness] [Coronating coordinating coral cortisol,] [Coals corduroy covering chiseled] Coalescing cornering collages Congo corking cornucopia] [Labyrinth lapis lazuli lapping] [Lateralis labels luscious lackadaisical] [It’s incomprehensible collective] [Of cold coil cohesive cohesion] [Cloaked in incognizant cogs skimming] [Schism swivel swim slithered] [Rivers trim ribboning dim] [Tinge linen innards photosynthesis] [Limbs disfiguring scintillating] [Schizophrenia; (denim resin)] [(Red ebony Serengeti’s tenebrous ghosts token)] [(Arch carpet parthenogenesis; blend assemblage blonde constellations onyx tawny collages)] [(Bronze colander onyx transmogrification)] Nebulous rust’s lustrous Brushstrokes oaken opal roping topaz [Bronzing bogs of obelisks Stitched nickelled pitch contortionist] [Twisting abyss whiskey Hieroglyphs bristled Nyx picturesque depths] [Meshing crepuscular effigies] [Bethels etched orchestral] [Gauzy golems polymers] [Cobbling monoliths crystalline wisp Styx] [(I) know this, (this one truth)] [I am still here] [Even after the sun d(r)ips {(down)/below}] [The {peekaboo/(chin)} of the] [{Custard/(syrup)/(tapioca)/(coconut)} cloud] [Nocturne octaves clockwork] [Circles ghost rose crocus tuberculosis] [Drizzled deluging dunes duvet] [Doubloons dooming dew drew didgeridoo] [Even as the darkness vomits up the last remaining pinpricks of (twi)light] [If I had any {better/other} {idea/answer}; ({I’d/you’d} think maybe) I would have ({eventually/already}) found it] [{And/but}] *+[This is all there {is/was}]+* *+[This life, this nothing]+* *+[Nothing]+* Life is *+[Nothing]+* *+[It never was anything, And it never will be (anything)]+* *+[Simply another word Forgotten in a world of scrawled crowds; Lost in the graffitied mess of the masses cacophony]+* *+[Noted down by the lead pencil]+* Creased pages smearing Greased fleece brown sheet clouds [The sun shines like an Ulcer in the bowels of heaven] *+[Above chipped city streets; Shedding sediment caving pavement Bouquets of vertebrae azaleas]+* Percolating faces molding embroidered coils boiling over exfoliation *The people’s drift apart like colour(s) in a vast sea* *+[They crush god underfoot, they crush country, (They crush existence, beauty, image,) underfoot, and speak of some form, or transcendence, For the nothing that-which they {see/are}]+* *+[The light they are not (blessed with)]+* [The faded black(board) pupil dilates; Sees (some idol, some semblance of) itself (with)in them] *+[Some polaroid of monochrome]+* *+[Underneath Babel]+* *+[Concrete constellations crash collapsing {Castles/candles/crammed} in the sand]+* *+[Ravelling, knotted into the]+* *+[Unending frame of a second Unhinged from the formless Chord of void, cursed curdled Twisted and entangling into, A vacuum, a lacuna Composed of inkblot eyed nothingness, Constructed from abstract shape Metamorphosed indifference, (Blank lopsided balance, teetering) Equilibrium, (tethering freedoms,) Lacking the integrity,) the tranquility Of rigid stillness, (dulling) (Electroconvulsive, onomatopoeia (Without a mouth to speak of, dilapidated tornado of blind caliginous images photosynthesizing,) {Only/faithless}]+* *+[But {loud/bright/churning} {Silence/shadow/static}]+* Winding through the cavern of an eardrum *+[Lost along the way]+* *+[The sun shines its crooked shine, And the butterflies smoulder but]+* *+[Its smothered cold remains; Fail to {reach/recognize} apotheosis]+* *+[The brightness is blind; Is momentary, is monument to emptiness]+* [Is patches of parchment To the open mouth skies] [The canal between minds Trickling droplets’ of tomorrow into abyss] Again and again and again, and *+[Bringing up something new From the depths of nothing]+* *+[I might as well have killed My childhood (with this) (Bent chisel) a long time ago]+* *+[By now]+* *+[I {hardly/don’t} (even) {hear/know/feel/recognize} {it/a-thing}]+* Is it not better, to {forget/forgive}? *+[Even those beyond forgiveness?]+* As if the sun-drowned sky would murder them, or the clouds might murder them, or the jaws of Limbo might {murder/take} them As if the trees, or the water, or the breeze might kill them, for who they are, what they Might’ve done (to me, once)? *+[The earth regrets little now; The clouds, rolling Together with the wind]+* *+[Regardless]+* There was love, once I strangled it, [the future I couldn’t have] [The future that forgot me and moved past] *+[Laid out its restless corpse, as a (carved out) reminder]+* *+[Under blue velvet clouds]+* *+[The winding of my clockwork Rose, pulled inside out]+* Gelatinous pastures wrap Around rapids of warped cork corridors’ forest Porcelain amorphous Torching quartz orchid morphing A clenched fist opening *+[Holding entropy]+* [With {these/trembling} hands] *+[The clock sings each hour to sleep in its 2 thousand arms; Holds the progression of (this) stagnant river]+* *+[I see the slow dance of a hollowed guitar step over silent abandonment (tangled in its net)]+* *+[The woods slither forth]+* *+[Shadows of the night (Naked dance the waltz)]+* [Pearl swirl sterling tinge Photosynthesis gin ribboning imprisonment] [Creamy Elysian peeling Cathedral cerebral beacon creased leaf] *+[Nocturnal inferno gold Sol Corona exfoliated maples pull]+* *[Lunar petunias monsoon Blooming pewter aluminum Plume illuminated]* *[Painting maples aether Dilapidation shape bouquets grey pages]* *[Braided aeons crochet paisley halos tornado]* As if {It/they/we} were (something of) {my/its/our/their} own *+[As it was before]+* *+[{It/this} will be again]+* *+[I love no one]+* *+[And no one loves me]+* *+[A smooth rock dropped into the bottom of {this/a} lake]+* *+[Of lukewarm winter solstice]+* *[(Still) I’m here; waiting for the (loose) end(s) of {nothing/rope}into infinite; broken helixes]+* *+[Wondering]+* *+[What came first]+* *+[I don’t know what I want]+* *+[I don’t know if I ever did]+* *+[There was]+* *+[No reason]+* *+[None]+* *+[({And/yet}) I wouldn’t have it]+* *+[Any other way]+* *+[Silence, static, (null, void)]+* *+[You’re all (that) I (ever) had]+* *+[All that I am]+* *+[All {I’ll/I} ever {be/was}]+* <I want love> <Droplets> <Of fire>
<“We were put here on this earth,” “Put here to feel joy”> <Drawn to a blank {screen/canvas}> <Pure madness>
<“A game of turning white” “Into black and black into white”> <Resting comfortably> <*+[In a pulsating ambiance]+*> =<*+[{Its/(because)-this-is} all {I/we/there/they} {know/are/ever-was/were}]+*>= <*+[A flower in the basement Where we bore our loneliness]+*> All [of which that] I am [All I am is] [That] [Just that] [Only that] [Outstretched roots of doubt] [Your flowers] (Strung out into the knotted Scarf of a blank wrung sentence;(bent out from the pretzel page warped onyx, an empty promise) [Gardens harboring bronzed constellations Tawny carnivals’ polymerizing kaleidoscopes] [By that, still that] Know(ing) that, feel(ing) that, Liv(ing) [for] that, dy(ing) [for] that [Never (to) {tell/know} The difference ({to/from} that) The depths of silence, drowning together)] [Under blanketing marble Water covering an abstract blackness] [Life a mirror reflection] [Warped] [Behind broken glass] [The shadow bends, forked, snakes through trellised trees, of metamorphosed contorting forest] [Yet I’m still here] [Stranded by the lake] [Watching an empty sunset Fall between the cracks (Of a brick wall)] [The high rise ({of/like}) An outstretched hand, Reaches for the throat] *+[The voice]+* *+[The effigy]+* [Of another restless moment] Reaches for heaven sent salvation; for wilted quilts of yarn “And the moon, it always came… it came too late” [I see no reason] [Not even my own] [The past has come and gone] [I do not care] [Because] [I cannot shape it] Because the blue skin of Rippling tarp has no freedom from the rain Because the endless surf Of shallow clouds twist like a bangled arm (held close by a crying child) Because the torrent of turquoise Void born varicose echoes out in vain The shape that is(n’t) me This statue of barbed wire Straggling the tempest fence Shackled by the chain Twirled into a million deadly blades of grass Because I listen to the sound of nothing And find no peace of mind As it ravels {softly/slowly} Through my catacomb ear And back out into the infinite Null of voices overlapping Each other like ocean waves Falling like bombs upon each other; The crashing of each Whitewater transmogrification; why? Born back into that blackness Of heart that {I-am/we-are} Only a lost child’s memento Painting {it/one}self into entropy Like daisies pushing up The searchlight fingers of mountains Without knowing the glory of (a mis)understanding The cold hand of God grasping At the straws of autumn Clasping monochrome onyxes between their palms The wind, the bombardment Of fallen leaves shrivelling Into vague contempt’s ecstasy, a mockery, a false idol unto the unutterable universe of silence They know nothing, I know Only my own, because {You/I} {never/cannot} love(d) {me/you} {at-all/anyways} There is no hope for the starting gun; I watch The bullet point unwritten (Between the lines [in the sand]) That shot down shooting stars And lived, there is only this Equilibrium, the beating From the drums that wrought Upon the bones of tomorrow The sound would have killed me If it hadn’t been the {bluebird/rhythm/tune/tomb} Of my own heartbeat Drywall murals, graffiti Dressed in the eyes of abyss Blind men that pummeled {Against/at} the colourful faded walls Life trumpeting death Through a mosaicked warzone of decay and grunge;(thick with smoky voices that permeate, one) As its butterflies’ dry cocoon Splits like streams of thought, Rivers of (the bottomless) consciousness (Drafted into war by the pencil) Drowning alive in the horizon of fallen leaves like a sunsetting Armageddon of reddened heaven Anchored branches pomegranate chasm Through riverbed rosaries Into gesticulated splintering vinyl Spiral photosynthesizing Into motion (polka dot yolk sizzling) Cloaking oceans interloping Roping opal oak kaleidoscope torchlit Emulating the stillness that made Them, this infinitesimal Shaping and reshaping The sun staring down The barrel of a gun, With its angry eyes Blind men shaped by the shapeless divide Naked orchards, floral eden Dull stare of a morning sun; Stitch biscuit drifting ellipsis photosynthesis; separate the body from the mind Mercury curtains pull Back the layer of walls [Flowers meadows petals (em)bedding (metallurgy of burgundy ferns hurricane jade) Sprouting outstretched zephyr retina] [Forest oratory torrent oranges Formless oar torchlit metamorphosis] Moored coral dawning Arboretums cerulean cedars Meteoric chlorophyll [Silver pillories frill wilderness Eclipse quilting silk milkweed] Portrait swathing alabaster Plastered rapids capsize Niles isles [Marionettes etching crepuscular Stretching effigies phosphorescent Lethe incandescents] Creosote oaks cloaking unfocused lotus Uncorking porridges florin Corridors coral boreal phantasmagorias Coiling around voided Ground bound in flowering gown Garden yard arboretum Bottom-feeding eden reef leaves autumn season peeling cedars Weaving sleeves cleaving Reeds meridian seams verdant Purr of a bourbon hurricanes Plains marmalade haloes Groves corona Sol tomes Asmodeus golden scarecrow Exfoliating maples gaping Oasis polymerized creation Wades paisley gates acreage Makeshift glyph precipitation Bronzing august droplet Sarcophagus conduit Lager transmogrification Pasted glaciers curtain mercury Serpentine green reverb onomatopoeia Firmamental entrails entailing Azaleas paled haloes gold gladiolus Ambrosial unfolding exodus Woven polaroids violas corduroy foliage Cauterizing vinyl ivory Cyclone pyres iris eye kaleidoscopes [Caramelizing pines winding Binary clarinets depth sunsetting nebula] Tethering heaven Serengetis Nether leathery reverend Unendingly bending parthenogenesis Clementine rhinestone bone Exfoliated paint aether gates wasteland Animating matrix eclipse Pitch eucalyptuses shapeshifting Glyph chrysalises wisp photosynthesis Drifting through the tomb Of a blue moon of pewter uterus Monsoon doubloons bloom Sewn aluminum tsunami collaging mahogany Blotting bottomless hickories Blitzkrieg twigs stygian rings slithering Figs ridging prismatic avalanches Branching amaranthine Chrysanthemum’s blanketing Anchors’ sanctuaries; blank handkerchief Romanticized spirals lilacs Blackness waxed daffodil Vaccine graffitiing Elysian encyclopedia Green cedars peeling Speleothem reddening Denim resin assemblage [Dawn transmogrifying Horizons in a fog of dahlias] Polished obelisks stitch Citrus monolith brick Icarus Nyx Bangled anvil pattern attics Latticing springs wings obsidian The ribboning clockwork Hands of time, pulling, pushing Pointing at the answers They stare as if they knew them themselves The face of a clock lined with the lettering of word-walls [scratched into it’s broken glass skin] Crosseyed by the sculpted of the shape and the shapeless The eye of a needle stitching Through the hurricanes’ sky Shedding petals; shredded yellows Envelope cellos emerald ghettos [Snaking through vacant pews Ludicrous pits mithril abyss] Bourbon tourniquet swivelling Sigils pillowing vermillion daffodils silver [Willows chiseled into chartreuses bouquets braiding crocheted veils] Traveling through ovulating moon Tie-dye neon jaws constructed Constellation clouds flowering valley [White waves downed in Chrysalis blackness alabaster Damascus] Washing gouache sarcophagus phosphates Blossoming knotted onyx Blond tonic transmogrification] Falling upon each other; crashing one fitting together in anger and love; jigsaws of broken pieces Slinking back from the {basement/gravel} shore This marbled Mess of opalescent crests Sepulchers a bird without wings Plummeting into caliginous Eyed weightlessness burdenlessly Torn like a paper plane Pockmarked wooden gelatinous Hardening its’ branches into Canopy of messy hair caramelizing ivory Working its way through the processed eyes spiraling into the sigil of vermillion wilderness Peridot gouache; dotted Eclipsed by the tools that brought them {into/their} shape The art of emptiness As if the chisel that made them Made them better (for it) As if the chisel {knew/cared} [This {small/smooth} flat rock (Swallowed by {the/dark/transient} waves *Pulling back from the ridged Unfinished imprisonment of jigsaw shore*)] [Doesn’t know (the *small insignificant* difference)] [Or perhaps maybe he just] [Doesn’t {want/seem} to (care For another meaningless) anwser] [When there isn’t one that’s worth listening to] {Anymore-than/but} the still silence [That I {am/have} (become)] [Echoing loudly through it all; (The shapeless cacophony that is)] Heaven’s Armageddon reverends Bend resin assemblage; cotton phosphorus Sunsetting in ebony nether Emissaries ribbon thread venom Pouring porridge cornea Metamorphosis ore corona corridors forge Oily portrait corduroy void Sol golden corona gladiolus Forming torrents forested Abyss pitch viscus lithium crystalline [Riptide violin asylums Smothering dove tonguing rugged covers] Tornado halo crocheted maelstrom Braiding suede fraying pages Paper oasis painting transmogrification Face lacing paisley constellations [Pomegranate amber tambourine Phoenixes twisted into pixel hieroglyphics] Stranded dandelions Folding over the delicate spine of a horizons [Dawn autumn gelato Sol rolling over molten lotus] [Lost {in/by} what we (haven’t) found ({By/in} (the) {daylight/darkness})] And I can see it all
“Nobody loves {me/you}, nobody cares Nobody loves {me/you}, maybe {I’ll/we’ll} go eat worms” {But/yet} (still) I {do/could} not care (less) There is no reason to (it) [There is no {beauty/benefit/dignity/dream/future/victor(y)}] {(In)-here/(in-this,)brother} [{And/(what-can-I-say?)/(without-a/shadow-of-a-doubt)/(to-us)}] {There/I} never {really/believed-a} {was/word} © 2025 R.J CalzonettiAuthor's Note
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R.J CalzonettiBurlington, Halton, CanadaAboutMost of my poems can be differing lengths depending on the time you want to spend reading them. You can avoid reading anything brackets, or read it all. If you want an in-between, you can read only th.. more..Writing
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