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literary arts
creating ourselves
against a background of white noise
a word is made flesh
radiant in vibrato
an iridescent cadence
of rotational motion
pending rebirth mode/ life
as seen thru the aura's amniotic fluid
entirety diffused
emotionally homogenized
thought-forms flickering
luminous w/ impressionist grace
elusive, aerified w/ a geometrical buoyancy
or heavy,
wiring the schematic of dna
these double-strands of carnification
where former selves are stored carbohydrates
organic selective memory
as nerve delicacy entices the remotest electrochemistry
a contact mesh, subliminal or composed of actual substance
a serenade of human constellations
immersed to survey infinity
--appeared in goodwitch stories
(c) 1994 karen verba
against a background of white noise
a word is made flesh
radiant in vibrato
an iridescent cadence
of rotational motion
pending rebirth mode/ life
as seen thru the aura's amniotic fluid
entirety diffused
emotionally homogenized
thought-forms flickering
luminous w/ impressionist grace
elusive, aerified w/ a geometrical buoyancy
or heavy,
wiring the schematic of dna
these double-strands of carnification
where former selves are stored carbohydrates
organic selective memory
as nerve delicacy entices the remotest electrochemistry
a contact mesh, subliminal or composed of actual substance
a serenade of human constellations
immersed to survey infinity
--appeared in goodwitch stories
(c) 1994 karen verba
magma
the dreamer awakens
in the world of desires
naked in the furnace, to purify emotions
to run, to melt--creating a flow
a liquesce of raw earth in combustion's crescendo
igneous now, these emotions in utero
whose elemental precursors coalesce
in red rivulets
plasticity in arabesques of molten gold filaments
forming faces to each feeling
mouths open, widen
till faces split & merge
resynthesized
along a fluid wane of ellipse
hybrid portraits intrinsically unified
nimble caricatures snaking graceful & exotic
swiftly fused
in a dance of most ancient carnal knowledge
sleepily kinetic, both tasting & tasted
compulsions sweetened
in the crucible of a 6peteled flower
how rich this blood is,
this undifferentiated, deep-stratum archetype
submerged, reconstructed in a rare equilibrium
dream congeals into a matrix of matter
geothermally transmogrified
thickening a nascent trace
an embryonic flotation
undeterred by contemporary curse
-- appeared in goodwitch stories
(c) 1994 karen verba
the dreamer awakens
in the world of desires
naked in the furnace, to purify emotions
to run, to melt--creating a flow
a liquesce of raw earth in combustion's crescendo
igneous now, these emotions in utero
whose elemental precursors coalesce
in red rivulets
plasticity in arabesques of molten gold filaments
forming faces to each feeling
mouths open, widen
till faces split & merge
resynthesized
along a fluid wane of ellipse
hybrid portraits intrinsically unified
nimble caricatures snaking graceful & exotic
swiftly fused
in a dance of most ancient carnal knowledge
sleepily kinetic, both tasting & tasted
compulsions sweetened
in the crucible of a 6peteled flower
how rich this blood is,
this undifferentiated, deep-stratum archetype
submerged, reconstructed in a rare equilibrium
dream congeals into a matrix of matter
geothermally transmogrified
thickening a nascent trace
an embryonic flotation
undeterred by contemporary curse
-- appeared in goodwitch stories
(c) 1994 karen verba
nameless
caught in the earth's gravitational pull
we hurt, we heal
trying our bodies on for size
musical increments in stellar ganglions
we rain milk
& insert ourselves into the recorded message.
leavened darling/ restructuring his graph
for optimum radical mass
nudging trust, he answers the zombie shuffle
debating our yokes, our unchosen route--
apparently daring is not enough.
his charm is indignant indigo, a molecular oval of aura.
like a hurricane he hinges the doorway
a static marionette, solitary & shadowed.
an unsilent runner down these corridors of consciousness
banging on doors, demanding freedom--
mocked, sullen, distraught.
your kirilian shards astigmatized
along planetary creases
mouthing remorse codes, a gulf of metabolism:
your ceremonial spleen alone exploits the skirmish
the unmistakable valiant axis of spinal chord
as if it were a tightrope.
so you take it seriously, your squandered skin.
blindfolded & dreaming,
submersed in the journey, your feet unconvinced.
--appeared in zero gravity freefall
(c) 1994 karen verba
caught in the earth's gravitational pull
we hurt, we heal
trying our bodies on for size
musical increments in stellar ganglions
we rain milk
& insert ourselves into the recorded message.
leavened darling/ restructuring his graph
for optimum radical mass
nudging trust, he answers the zombie shuffle
debating our yokes, our unchosen route--
apparently daring is not enough.
his charm is indignant indigo, a molecular oval of aura.
like a hurricane he hinges the doorway
a static marionette, solitary & shadowed.
an unsilent runner down these corridors of consciousness
banging on doors, demanding freedom--
mocked, sullen, distraught.
your kirilian shards astigmatized
along planetary creases
mouthing remorse codes, a gulf of metabolism:
your ceremonial spleen alone exploits the skirmish
the unmistakable valiant axis of spinal chord
as if it were a tightrope.
so you take it seriously, your squandered skin.
blindfolded & dreaming,
submersed in the journey, your feet unconvinced.
--appeared in zero gravity freefall
(c) 1994 karen verba
a few poems for now...