Submissions by Caliban_Dregs (Cal)

Sapphire sunlight falls and the wind is rose scented
O Sweet San Simeon.

She Sighed and pined around the world
to whirl my Charly Demuth skyline a'blur
and crow'd but good over the harbor
to cover in taffies of sound and forever,
like vines of vistas atop vistas
atop hulking Hearstian villas
bulking swirls of soft swell and Her
smooth smooth paisley pearls,
and perfect lines strutting tippy-top o'mine ,
and lips which lock and curves curves curves curves.
...

Eros in his idleness,
By which I came to find in time
The mirror of my own face,
Lovelorn, worn, torn, and wan.

Having trusted much to fae Himeros or Fancy high,
Sprung from the heart not from the mind
And stared as my eyes went ever blind
Stealing jade galaxies of green light -
As blue-bells, violets, nightingales went floating by
On the burnished waters of blue life.

Having been long this night adrift on lonely tides,
And perjured for my fool's pride,
Being one folly of all kinds,
Beholden to none
Save the...

Stumbling under
      fields of fractured starlight ,
howling incoherent Méryon blacks & grays

Stitched into the dark bed of night
I catch stark       Polaroid’s  of the blood as it fades,
decays,
          Seeps thru the etchings of her subliminal tongue
     Thru caverns and tunnels       that throb upon the surface
- And stick like slant’d quivers
               in the crook of strong arms
made small by the harm that they cause

O Chaos out of Chaos !
O Oracle I hath chased the rebellious hand
           down streets of...