Trapped

            In this place, there are walls

            Four walls; one ceiling, one floor

            Which make up a room

Darkness

            Envelops this place

            This place with four walls

            One ceiling; one floor

            Which make up this dark room

Fear

            pulses through this room

            The Fear creates Anxiety

            For me

                        Locked in this dark room

            With four walls

            One ceiling, and one floor

Alone

            There is no one with me

            And the Fear and Anxiety in the Darkness

            Of this place with four walls

            One ceiling, and one floor

            Leave me

Trapped

Unpublished Meter Test - Cowritten with Geoff G.

mirror, mirror black as hell

through time and tempest, Terren tell

the image screaming loud and fierce

nine horseman ferry hallowed hearse

the carnival of thought and sound

now twisted by Iago’s hound

and dragged through the inferno dark

deep shadow, where the daemons lark

as fiery fissures split the ground

and stars turn cold, come crashing down

as angels form their battle lines

and Atlas leaves the Earth behind

the firmament is all but gone

the shadows come apart from sun

and light is blocked by dark eclipse

mirror, the apocalypse.

Shorter Revisions

Prospective students

suit wearing children

unaccustomed to wearing suits

Orchestra Concert

one hundred horsetails

run from tiny stick

On Mood

I'm feeling great

Like peaches, cream,

And sauerkraut

Mist

             In the stillness of night

   the mist descends upon earth

            a shroud, like a blanket

just barely visible in moonlight

                    forever wandering

                      yet perfectly still

  the sea of clouds keeps watch

         over the sleeping ground

  until, above sloping hills

The rising sun

a warm embrace of light

 mist fades into retreating night

leaving only tiny droplets

upon the fields of grass

which stretch heavenward

towards the sunrise