Clockwise Cat Issue 40
We lovingly dedicate Issue 40 to our dearly departed (Perpetual) Poet-in-Residence, Felino Soriano. We hereby offer a mini-tribute to him among many other amazing writings and artworks. Stay tuned to an entire tribute issue to Felino, coming up in early Spring, 2019.
We lovingly dedicate Issue 40 to our dearly departed (Perpetual) Poet-in-Residence, Felino Soriano. We hereby offer a mini-tribute to him among many other amazing writings and artworks. Stay tuned to an entire tribute issue to Felino, coming up in early Spring, 2019.
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while<br />
shards of self-shrink shrivel up & melt in the fires of oblivion<br />
on<br />
this delirious voyage through the vastness & the vanishing<br />
&<br />
the crimson flames of madness<br />
in<br />
the bestial heat of August<br />
the<br />
fire-breathing Chimera<br />
that<br />
burns & claws & devours<br />
before<br />
the death of summer<br />
before<br />
the death of time<br />
on<br />
this unforgiving Day of Judgment<br />
BRIDGES OF BIZARRO COUNTRY<br />
(on reading Arthur Rimbaud’s poem-The Bridges from ILLUMINATIONS)<br />
Beyond<br />
the Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges<br />
through<br />
a tear in the Manhattan skyline<br />
on<br />
the other side of the turquoise sky,<br />
I<br />
discover the Bridges of Bizarro Country<br />
otherworldly<br />
entities of beauty & grotesquerie<br />
&<br />
objects merging in a mystical tessellation<br />
&<br />
now,
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