Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on July 18, 2013
If you were accused of numinosity
Would you be exotic include
Among your accouterment
A crown or tiara a wand or staff
Would you be indifferent to
Inquisitive hosts’ questions
Leave them to decide among
Various foreign residences
Accompanying identities
Perhaps a Celtic Faery from
A parallel world rarely seen
Outside of midsummer nights
A disturbance in the harmonics
Of whirling galaxies that
Would please Pythagoras
Perhaps an oracular prophet
Concerned to convey once
Secret knowledge in a time
Of dire need and consequence
Come from a border land where
Past and future meet for those
With eyes to see ears to hear
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on July 16, 2013
If I were a mathematician,
I might describe myself as
Self similar, each of my parts
An obeisance to mathematical arts.
But, given the life I have led,
I feel much more like the fractal world
Where possibility is at the edge of chaos,
The turbulent end of equations’ powers.
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on July 13, 2013
man created in God’s image
woman created in man’s image
God banishes man
God banishes woman
God drowns men
God drowns women
God drowns children
God drowns creation
God created in man’s image
man kills God
man kills woman
woman kills man
a word is said
God creates man and woman
man and woman create God
....
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on July 11, 2013
Shostakovich, who composed his
own requiem with the first four
letters of his name D S C H
captured in the music of
String Quartet Number Eight
with its funereal cello
followed by quotes from
other of his symphonies
stitched together a farewell
he escaped the censors
in a musical catharsis,
slept by the elevator,
protected his sleeping family.
Submitted by Clayton Medeiros on July 5, 2013
A rumbly engined truck
trundles up the ramp
of the boxy ferry, its broad,
flat bottom unfazed
by rugged rumbles as
the truck tests low gear.
The physics of this task,
many toned truck, green
and white ferry, escapes
my understanding until
a successful departure
overcomes all doubts.
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