Miscellaneous Poetry Drafts

October 12, 2025

I.

a blade of grass hides
minuscule migratory men
Lilliputian fiends

II.

mighty merry rascals
fickle, high off foglefreude
die English skippers

III.

I once beheld Seneca's estate,
Credulously inspecting his wicker tomb—
Yet Margate Mennons and liced defendants
Both swore by its awkward loom.

My heart gasped and lips shuddered
When, to my utmost surprise
The elderly Roman statesman lay
As mummified nitride.

Tick-tock, goes the clock
Garrulous gyrations too
Gizzardly Gentry, nice surprise
Confiding in a martyr's womb.

Foiled! the cuckoo's dead—
Not I, not I, not I!
Lambastation! Aberration!
To defy Nero's evil eye.

IV.

weed stands stout
thistles, burr
gadolinum kraut
hummus and herb

olden spires bristle, copper-waxed
kelpish tides awash blades of glass
Betty stout, orange'd brass
vermillion mounts, dugong grass

betwixed, witched, yonder
your shivers roll down my spine
I gave you a bouquet of thorned tulips
at sunrise, on Cocoa Beach

the rocket's red glare, the bombs
bursting over a lackadaiscal mare
I wish Martians dreamt of the stars
alas