Tag: poem

Abyssinnia

Ropes soaked rain-wet stretch taut across the back of the beast and secure its burden. Traversed alongside the great mountain, a narrow path winds towards the summit. Loosed pebbles dance over the edge of the road and skitter into the valley maw. A half-blind eye cast toward heaven, the other surveying the cautious limn of the abyss, each step adds one, each foot adds…

With Antony at Actium

The sun sat shadowed in a cloud of dust as we waited to march toward the sea. Ahead the trumpets blared the triumph march. The drumbeat of boots matched our thumping hearts. Mounted leaders adorned with pallid glory portend: War is our end and our fate is folly. Sages say some men are born meant to lead, and other men thus are born to…

Happy New Year

  After the New Year we sailed our sandbikes along down the gulf where we hung around the landfill plinking rats with pellet rifles. The rats are the size of kittens so they make good targets. We found this place at the end of the world where old surfers end up after one wave too many and every scruffy sailor with a boat claims…