The Last Few Decades

mainlining internet watch out for brain zaps automated processes never trust that hysteria, autosave, theta waves, seconds till the next craze what do you dream? tap now to find it crunching the numbers that pulverize, grind it to powder that pushes the new drugs through…

Relics of the Future

The cache in casket buried Exhumed as a signpost of immeasurable information   Aha! Relics of the future iPad iPhone iPod iMate iTV   We, the future, are now in the present Modern army will cultivate Another capsule For another farmer For another rain

The Inverted Word

  Interpretation and understanding reside When the Word itself—is inverted As Truth is said to—confide The meaning must be converted   Fixed in the opposite order For light to shine in darkness Interpreted by its own author But by the mirrored image’s strangeness   Strangeness…

The Chalice of the Goddess of War

(for hour 5—time capsule prompt—put in the world of Onweald)     The Chalice of the Goddess of War   More than four hundred years have passed Since the wizard Hrazon accepted his quest When prophets announced the lots were cast And he placed her…

Hour 5, Hands

Hands   They open the casket and I ask if I can hold your hand a callused time capsule  of every choice you’ve ever made, particles clinging from the skin you last caressed,  hairs on the back moving under the fans – the only part…

“Twenty-Four”

“Twenty-Four” All you need is twenty-four, All you need to do is keep positive, All you need is to graduate, All you need is get a respectful job, All you need is to find love and start a family, All you need is to succeed,…

5 Reflection

All my lovers were worth it Even when I cried and tried To understand why they left Or stopped being kind   I had them each at their best And most wonderful as they Were full of pride and beauty I was their proven prize…

Hour 5… time capsual

the storm has passed, like all storms do me, i made it, but as i walk the new day l see all have not, the ancient legs of the snow gum have been pulled from the earth line upon line of its history bared and…