Embrace the Beast
### Embrace the Beast There comes a time in human life when all seems stuck in swamps of strife, and mists surround the mire of man— but dare you ask how it began? Embrace the beast you've willed away, the faithful fiend you sought to slay, the...
The Yellowhead
### The Yellowhead Along a road called 'Yellowhead' I'd found myself alone— My ride had taken me to bed And, in the morning, flown— With paw outstretched and digit out, I walked the winter way, Yet not a...
Decorum in Grand Larceny and Other Such Criminal Courtesies: An Instructional Guide
Decorum in Grand Larceny and Other Such Criminal Courtesies: An Instructional Guide by C.M. Averin * * * **FOREWORD** If you are reading this, then in all likelihood you are a mammal of fine moral sensibility and pleasant disposition who, like so...
Dragon Slaying
### Dragon Slaying Sky-soaring serpents / Deep-lurking leviathans / Cave-dwelling creatures / Wise, fearsome, and powerful / Regal Gods inspiring awe / First benevolent / Reverence bringing favor / Reigns prosperity / Distant dreams of...
Type Writer
### Type Writer tapping typing softly swyping backspace spam and whole-work wiping all precede a deed worth reading cut the keys that keep impeding progress forward that's the watchword synonyms that stop...
The Grin in the Window
### The Grin in the Window While writing late into the night, beside a fickle candle's light, In hopes of holding fast my fractured mind— My tortured eyes caught foul a sight, a fearsome, freakish, fatal fright, A grinning ghoul with muzzle most...
La Mer
### La Mer I do recall those days of yore, Of wanton youths spent 'side the shore, On islands never touched by war, Those years are gone; I wish for more. We braved the bays of Yonder Yorn, While singing that we shan't be shorn, With eyepatches...
'We'
**We** What can? What will? What was? What is? Was theirs? Is ours? Was hers? Is his? Why is? Why was? Why now? Why then? But how? And why? And what? And when? Could I? Could we? With me? With you? It was? We did? Do...
Foxrunner
### Foxrunner Synthetic fur and iron bones made real, Cosmetic ears and eyes of feral scope, With hypothetic sims and nerves of steel, And cybernetic limbs, run turns to lope, Through modularity they swift adapt, With regularity they oft...
Werewolf
### Werewolf If I were a werewolf, I would wish we still were. With the other werewolves, we wither, each waswolf wearing. Wolf skins wishing they were Whole If I were a werewolf, I would wish we were not Shifting shapes at the touch of silver...
the body goes splash
The lion was a body. The body was slumped in a wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow was starting to drag. The dragging was hard on his paws. His paws were covered in blood. The blood was from somebody else. A somebody who wasn't a hare. A hare who was...
Voice Heard
### voice heard the status of free verse poetry in the Euro-American poetic canon has heretofore been a question of voices heard and unheard ...