Encounter at Kurukshetra

these fearsome marvels · Encounter at Kurukshetra

Turtles All The Way Down

these fearsome marvels · Turtles All The Way Down

Zero-Hour Work Week

these fearsome marvels · Zero-Hour Work Week

mark my words wise man

The Devil

Image: Meeting room stencil graffiti"
by Richard Rutter
CC BY 2.0

these fearsome marvels · mark my words wise man

Chariot

these fearsome marvels · Chariot

où tu ne te promènes pas

these fearsome marvels · où tu ne te promènes pas

not God

these fearsome marvels · not God

name it

these fearsome marvels · name it

gotta eat

these fearsome marvels · gotta eat

you have to know it.

these fearsome marvels · you have to know it.

while you do that

these fearsome marvels · while you do that

the ear distinctly tells

these fearsome marvels · the ear distinctly tells

before the goddess

these fearsome marvels · before the Goddess

Tempelhof No More

these fearsome marvels · Tempelhof No More

hearts uncovered

Uncovered heart, exposed on walks, in park,
at Wasserturm, at Denkmal, Bank und Platz,
or naked, strung up on the baby throne.
Singing heart out into phone--no, not
alone, surrounded by the poets of
the Ages: Sounding Ones who've raged and flown.

Cover: The Valley, by loren chipman, CC BY-NC 2.0

these fearsome marvels · hearts uncovered

Melisa

these fearsome marvels · Melisa

Monday morning, I’d
be searching, swerving
high and low and tripping
long, by bulls
and pools. A fool
would I be, searching under
every stone, for one
who loved me just
a moment, but eternal
one: a moment.
Won’t forget the moment when
she hugged me.

A fool would I be,
vainly seeking, peeking
under every hood,
behind each goggle,
blinking, winking
back my sleep, still seeking
into night for
checkered cotton—
angora—
for stylin’ wild and bright-
eyed child, yawning
into dawn and crossing
each abscissa.
Misty-eyed I’d list
from miss to miss,
one missive on my
lips: Melisa? It’s

lucky, I’m not stuck. A
lucky fucker,
I! I gave my number,
thumbed in phone
my number. Even
in her sun, I typed
it right. Someone looking out
for me,
all right. Someone running
everything
up there, someone there to
guide the pair
of all-thumbs Amar’s
stumpy wayward thumbs.

Right! Thumb,
foresight, bright...then
to my lips,
forefinger, thinking...what?
And how? How now
this miss, Melisa,
what to write Melisa?
Hi? Hello? Happy I, enjoyed
to meet you? Joy. It was a joy,
and einmal,
keinmal would it
just as joyful been.

may queen's throne

these fearsome marvels · may queen's throne

Melisa and the Bull

these fearsome marvels · "Pancho and Lefty" (Van Zandt) / "Melisa and the Bull"

adding my asterisk

these fearsome marvels · adding my asterisk

*

I don't add my asterisk. I don't add it.
I'm not an asterisk, although I have one.
One wish I have, one simple wish: to be
your lover in a story of the Greatest
Love. To take our place together in
the Pantheon of Lovers: Orpheus,
Eurydice, Krishna-Radha. Lunacy?
Of course it is! Is there any other
love but lunacy? Everybody has one,
Catherine. Everybody's got an asterisk,
everybody's got an ask, every
body comes with shit. You love to call
it shit. Ok, it's shit, my shit. Of course
I've got my shit. I've got my asterisk
I've got a body just like you. Would
you please (not) hold it against me?

Beautiful Boy / I never knew I loved Dean Rader

these fearsome marvels · "Beautiful Boy" (John Lennon) / "I Never Knew I Loved" (Dean Rader)

"Clandestino" 2 & 1 / "Shall we gather?"

these fearsome marvels · Clandestino 2 & 1 / Shall we gather?

Skeleton Woman

A reading of "Skeleton Woman," from Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., expanded from a five-line spoken poem given to her by Mary Uukalat.

When silent, reading, I, on ledge of Wasserturm,
could read no longer under silence, my heart
took flight, took voyage, took grasp of Skeleton Woman.

these fearsome marvels · Skeleton Woman

so sweet smell

these fearsome marvels · so sweet smell

Not without a scratch,

escape. Not
without a cut, a scrape, an opening gape,
a mercy of the death-delivering knave,
a turning of the japing, blade: a teaching.

A teaching: taught a lesson of the cost
of liberty. A lesson of the settling
of debts, the evening of freedom's sweep.

Freedom. Expected you for free, the freedom?

these fearsome marvels · Not without a scratch