Our daily activities Consisted of exercise For our legs, emotions, and tear glands You came Clothed in the white and orange Of a superhero Promising hope You added to our rations A larger portion of your explosive taste To teach the other chefs To be... Read More
My Home
In rheum of my eyes Floats dreams of my home Of warm and cool shades of grape wines On the secure walls of my Rome The fog-kissed morning Folding in, to the cloudy day Breezy, cool with a peck of Sun brushing the orchid stray Dusk tiptoes... Read More
Fear
by Richard Anietie Oh fear, oh fear what ties have I with you? Why have you smitten me with horror You had beclouded me with dread And let me see my death before I truly die Fear, you kill me daily, but I am raised again You show me the blood in... Read More
Here’s the Bell
He had trouble swallowing after the radiation fried his esophagus like a piece of bacon inside his body where the cancer busily went about its mission of death. Trouble eating, trouble breathing, trouble, even, drinking tiny sips of... Read More
COSTUME
I ate a hamburger on Halloween and by the time I was finished everyone had dressed up into a costume and everyone had gone crazy. Not me: I went into a movie house instead and saw a movie about a crazy person dressed in a white shirt with a crisp... Read More
Everything Red for the Queen
Everything is red in the kingdom of the queen. Matador hat with barnacles, witch white hair to the shoulders, tickling the breast. In her eyes are the blood shot of many vampires; in her heart the daggers of many soldiers. Five inky fingers cross her... Read More
My Love…
My love… I miss how you gaze at me and I find myself imprisoned by your stares, how the world rolls to a stop and no one exists but us I yearn for how you set me afire, count my heartbeats make me soil for your seed, devour me and... Read More
Where Do You Live?
Where do you live? I live in the heart of all Human Though invisible but prickling and audible I’m that little voice called *Conscience*. Where do you live?? I live somewhere on Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy Far from exploding Stars and shooting... Read More
Stay With Me
by Richard Anietie I recall less in my soul travail The sorcery in his love often prevail No deliverance, I care not if I derail I am ambitious, but if you leave, then I fail Charm me and with me you sail Stay with me when I am naughty Prove to me if... Read More