Craig Shay: All Winter

All Winter

The Sun in blistered fields


Tenacious
Technicalities–

Pensive melodies inside penumbras

Lightening Hopkins

Eight antiseptic syllables long
Postcards
Guernica resounding
Shadow puppets
Abnormality of charges
in shade
we kept warm
stronger  
youth parade
thinking
bodies
cranberry limousine
love’s limits
hear quietly
resolved sound
of monoliths 

All winter
death’s violin

gypsy music
half asleep beside the bonfire

All winter

a gravedigger

lonesome valleys

of loose guitar strings promenading through matrices
of   mucking


building a cupboard

with banking cartels

A winter’s rust   on a machine gun

revolver 
and galleons

the Watusi! the Twist


grass not dead

orbiting


avenue of poplars in autumn


stumble into ballrooms

post apocalyptic laughter


bicycles in bushes
winter’s hegemony


the sound, a child’s saxophone

pulsating
winter’s gabardine jaws

white swans

on still plastic lakes


All winter which ones

real which ones fake?


Dance of Shiva

beard of bumblebees

Bridget Bardot

serotonin drained


New world of fawning


of illicitness A cavern


uninformed citizens


sidewinders


deep crimson and black

a thrilling silence–

filled with slippery omniscience
ruby crusted Glock 17, symbiotic

Athenian pillars

smirking anxiety

chemotherapy cakes

Cutlass supreme

Eldorado

a rusty Impala



On the hood

a yellow thunderbird


A dance of shadows

an aquamarine Ford Fearmont



A lime green Pinto
the bracelet she left in the seat



What the water knows

Sincerely

–Water Bones



Glimpse into Chaos

Implosions

naïve doctrines

duplication of miniaturization

courtship with waves

representation of utopia of

infinitesimal memory
immanent
density

potentially scofflaw       other landmines

Holy Roman Empire

determined colonizing space
violence

liberated imagination

analytical socialization

impulsive schema of

ramifications born
fields
cybernetic

subversion dispensable reality

manipulative

scenarios   impossible 

anarchy remodeled
rejoicing–


What Eternity Knows


She doesn’t say

grinning
behind
an elaborate veil


Deep black
eyelashes


The musicality of glaring faces


glances 

a million sheets
white paper

composing songs 
with mascara

hidden 
bursts
unending 
knowledge


read
their dreams

teach the world to hear–


Ode to Generation X


When
November’s rain  evaporate –

the wet cement glistens with     bubbling ink


Chasing echoes in the distance
echelons to disparity 


Blackballed inertia

subjugated

claims of liberation



Confronted with expenditures

and financial analysis reports–


Devoid response

unacceptability


face painted unilaterally valorized

Guy Fawkes mask

offered

blackmailed Rebellion

Thinking it’s all so– refutable

yet, on the contrary,
total acquiescence

to production deadlines–

All educated–

writing the Requiems


across multimedia lines


All hairy handed musicians

sucking on the corporate cock

for inspiration


Manipulated pseudo-adults


No alternative like
simultaneously


blowing–



Ambiguity of

Political end   tie  the   chords

remodeled      and adjusting to Romper Rooms

and

bureaucracy’s pretty nooses–


Inextricable    juxtaposition

of the Mandelbrot set

exacerbation


caution-less  


with the lights out

sometime ages ago


the counterstrategies  that did not arrive 


no   Dream Songs


but absence

no message but


it’s less dangerous 


no response


challenging only the spectacle

of destruction


I     feel stupid and contagious


obediently subdued into midnight silence

grafting antisocial


Pomegranate medication the excesses of wealth and exploitation

with no social purpose devoured


with contempt


recycling the negatives     till immunity


and ill temperedness A fatal   exposure to irony–


here we are now entertain us


Zucotti Park is Melting in the Dark

Trivialities of life

vapid smoke–


Eyes, indefinitely holding

back

fear & trembling–

Bludgeoned

with assimilation

Disinterest prevails–

while 

the promise
of enterprise
demystifies the masses

with whirling dervishes of joy–


Submerged,

gestating identity

a golden uterus 

an organic apprehension–

babbling like an infant

into a human megaphone.