Posts tagged “SONNET”
  • At home
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 05 20 at 3:24:12 pm | 3 comments

    Out on the slope, above the alkaline
    and sterile sumps of rivers long deceased
    they watch, dry-tongued and stark. They bend their limbs
    at angles toward the sky, fists full of knives,
    a vulnerable heart, a growing urge
    within each nest of blades.

    … (continues)

  • Stargazing
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 29 at 12:49:31 am | 3 comments

    Under this vault of stars I am content.
    Stuck fast to this small rock I am at ease.
    Minuscule, ego fading by degrees
    and what remains of little consequence.
    Only the wind and stars, and nighttime shades
    of loves abandoned, fire going cold
    as in the

    … (continues)

  • Elysian Park
    By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 21 at 10:56:03 pm | 1 comment

    I miss the certainty I had back then.
    I miss the knowing all of it, the keen,
    the ardent hewing to my heart’s clear path.
    Old men slow-shamble in the liquor aisle,
    sigh Russian imprecations baleful, soft
    under their smog-choked breath. This

    … (continues)

  • Optimism
    By Chris Clarke on 2008 09 26 at 1:39:00 am | 0 comments

    Take my fingers, split nails to the quick,
    tear off this sallow skin from nail and bone
    and scatter all of it among the rocks
    to feed the creosote. This back long-bent
    could be reduced to vertebrae and flesh
    to jerk and desiccate, this pliant hide … (continues)