Stay Zetatuned and Subscribe by Email above ~

Sunday, May 30, 2021

In Slysternian Wending

 West of the westerly rising 
pillar of heat in our midst 
off toward a far shore crashing
dashing dust devils to bits 

Hung on a past wind back flapping
Slowed to a soundtrack in the background
Rewound upon the branches
Caught on magnetic tape 

Stunned into remembering the trenches
Getting knocked into them and stumbling out
Structures crumbling beneath the park benches
Bolted to a small plot of land encased in asphalt


(to be cont.  who knows
it could be that something
comes of it, long term while
the hours wither away on a cob
web strand broken off and flying
into the gradually awakening wind)

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Filing Away at the Crypts


I'm concerned about this widespread proliferation of subscribing online to a succession of descending platforms which, as only a few of us seem to know (or succeed at remembering), at least for now, is really just an unfolding series of folders, blossoming out like petals in an endlessly generated forest of pixilated flora blooming into the black of the deep dark web.

For that is where we've found ourselves all this time wondering while logging away online to ourselves what's this deep web I keep hearing about well stop wondering today kid cuz it's the oceanic tomb we've already adapted ourselves to breathe in quite well the question remains are we prepared to lie down in it and sleep forever I mean this deep down bed we've made.

Trying to keep my free flow thinking contained within the strictures of four line stanzas I hope that breaks it up more or less evenly so that anyone reading this might follow along with me so help us out and sing this song together its a spell bound to break their hold on us after we couldn't stand the weather long enough to revolt outside so try to remember just one thing.

The web they spin a snare a trap of silken digital threads enwrapped about us each and every day a glittery cocoon in which we gladly lay and think that while we're hooked in line and sinker we can spread our message to the world all the while quite blind to the fact the world itself is not online the world still howls and bites and thrives and holds no more memory than you or I.

And all that data cached in the cloud remains a blurred reflection whispered loud inside a cellar locked up tight where sleepless zombies dream overnight in fitful starts and silent ends where no one notices or pretends to even remember you once were friends it's like stumbling inside one of your own bad dreams and getting lost in it entirely and not waking up.

I wrote this just for you my friend [john shirley] you got smart and minnow-slipped out through an eyelet in the netting now I'm left behind temporarily trying to find a footing in the ever shifting multiplex of the online book of visages each and every page the stretched out skin of someone's face you used to know a mummified leaf in the wailing-wall vortex of a shutting tomb.

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Seventh League

Into the seventh storm
Beyond a pale ordinary morning
Stretched into the indigo of the day
Belonging in this new continuum
A part of us sunken deeper into chasms
While the rest of our body ascends on the way
Up toward the stratosphere's neighboring layers
Of varying electromagnetic signatures beckoning
The clouds to get underway and permit silent passage
To further escalate up to the exosphere into the stratum
Of satellites, thin hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, helium, etc.
These leagues may be counted from both directions in the
Same manner as planet Earth might be considered the sixth
Planet inward from Neptune (as classically the outermost

world as the E-string on an acoustic guitar) far out enough
To balance the scale of octaves from the music of the spheres
That's been emanating from our rather youthful parent star
For as long as we've been humming around these grounds
Stretched out beneath the Northern Lights with our worn
Out memories that will never fade only brighten like the
Tryst rings on our fingers that will linger in our minds
After turning all the pages in the book of poems
Of our stories having nourished us with astral
Light from the beginning of our lives
In this ancient substratum we are
Extended into the orange dusk
Before a bright odd evening
After the seventh storm





Saturday, January 20, 2018

Emblem of Eternity

The symbol of infinity lying on its side
a self devouring ouroboros serpent
in its perpetual double spiral ride
divine not attributable to circumvent
these logistics swept up in a flurry
by this rosary chain handed down
taking time without being in a hurry

Friday, August 11, 2017

six shades

of darkening black gathering intensity
as it forms the cloud polluting the eye
that scans over the horizon to see what
comes next seven blades of circumstance
arranged in a flowering scale dripping
diamond mercury drops in a stitchwork
buffeting a gale driven between gulfs
sparked in the albumen of outer space
while eight shadows stagger across this
permutation still taking place and all
nine entwined molecular chains separate
into three trinities combined while we
emerge from the tenth portal to find
one packed homestead open to infinity
dividing in twain to face each other
off in a battle of tempestuous love
giving birth to the third elemental
which time will double into six other
shades of blackened darkness gathering

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Twipentagonal

Welcome to the tenth post on my Zetatine blog.  Did you know the pentagonal shape in nature is extremely rare with inorganic objects?  Yet it flourishes amid the kingdom of living subjects.

The twilight of the world may be seen as merely the apex of a phase completing itself.

There are two types of people. Those who believe infinity to be real, and those who do not.

The trick toward accommodating such a belief in eternity lies in the amorphous shape of faith.

The tectonic mind interlocks its leaves in order to cup the crystal clear waters of fidelity.

This is another way of saying that the technical mentality runs the risk of sieving facts through it.

The clue to the whole story as it appears to each of us relies on our acceptance of brass tacks.

Every annihilating cataclysm of the world boils down respectively to a personal apocalypse.

Each star like every character's psyche interlinks along the pulsing evolution of permanence.

To be taken from one manifestation always amounts to being given unto the next incarnation.