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187 · Apr 2019
None Other Than
Onoma Apr 2019
i met

a woman on

a blue field...

we looked

from

behind one

another's eyes.

to face ourself.

as none other

than...
186 · May 2019
Clear And Simple
Onoma May 2019
transcendence cannot

be applied as a practice--

that's only the mind

trying to think its way

out of another box.

real transcendence is

clean, clear and simple.

it's when a blast of energy

hits you--and you don't know

where you are.

you've been transcended.
186 · Nov 2023
Whiteout Owl
Onoma Nov 2023
there's a whiteout

owl releasing respiration

on a shrinking window.

so it's wingspan can

overspread.

seminal stars in its

digestive system.
186 · Mar 2021
At Last Black
Onoma Mar 2021
there's an irresponsiveness

that gets turned on at

first black.

still the features that show

up are distinct.

an entire entity leans in.

withdrawing the ashen bathwater

of Shiva...who knows when

to slather it on.

though he's cleanly extracted.

draining the sounds contained in

broken water.

post, post, post scriptum...

Escher etchings of a raven

motioning its only pair of wings.

turned out at last black.
185 · Aug 2021
Over Winter
Onoma Aug 2021
when picking

meets

an unfurled

petal,

fingers unhand

themselves.

in such a way--

that a mutual

scent

remains with

every petal

come winter.

over winter.
185 · Jan 2022
No One’s Looking
Onoma Jan 2022
mugshots

of lacquered

roses,

that can't

sustain wilt.

*** to the

senses of their

color.
185 · Aug 2018
Your Casualness
Onoma Aug 2018
there's always fear on the

heels of love...who you

thought you were.

seeing the eyes of

who you'll be...just in the wait

of who you really are.

love is always more or

less love, your casualness in

finding who you think you are.

you'll lose your shoes

at the door for sure.

something wants to hold on

with the frenzied hand

of a lost child.

supremely still yet panting...

for a face that will justify

being.
185 · Feb 2021
Already Outrun
Onoma Feb 2021
fruits bruise

in the musculature

of a stallion.

plum-purple beating

the heart of a night.

already outrun.

taken by its own

outline.

somewhere...

going.

movements left...

penetrating.
185 · Jan 2024
Benighted Starfish
Onoma Jan 2024
a benighted starfish...

wrangling with

participles.
185 · Nov 2019
Mimicing Maria Callas
Onoma Nov 2019
Maria Callas shatters

a Pyramid of Giza

size stack of wine glasses...

as the audience open

their mouths wide to

mimic her.
185 · Dec 2019
Reified Paradox
Onoma Dec 2019
i have seen where

the blind are led.

reified paradox.

what came before

The Fall.

The Height.

neither letting up

to touch down.
183 · Feb 2019
Blue is a Still Color
Onoma Feb 2019
let the moon

drift off like

a pebble down

a well...so tides

may lose the pull

of her tale.

blue is a still color.

which her illusion

wants to move.
Onoma Nov 2023
the paragon of a

birthday Buddha

flickers on a certain

wall.

mid-November wind

flickering two welting

purple columns dotted

with daffodils.

good enough to

withstand

him, he good enough

to withstand their

center.

they are meant to

hold candles.

but they don't.

allowing for the first

blade of green grass

to pass thru them.

winter is long.
182 · Sep 2018
Slowly Settling
Onoma Sep 2018
still is the size,

silence the voice--

spake eternal.

be volume unto heaven's

water.

slowly settling...

as timed light

projecting dust.

to awake sizing

mirrors...caught clear

and receptive.

enough for replacing

reflections.
182 · Apr 2018
Full Stop
Onoma Apr 2018
Wake, the telegrammatic

message begins: full stop.

thousandth mile of a first

step--(crazy wisdom).

the journey condensed

to a stone talisman in hand--

squeezed hard enough to

issue water.

leaving clear splotches on

dust-caked feet, a deep breath

takes itself.

an Arcadian distance betrays

the sunbathing emissaries of fate.

a feeble self-hug is given, to

quell the shudder.

a roll of coffee in mouth, with

the gradualness of staining Teeth.
182 · Sep 2019
Drew Out
Onoma Sep 2019
if i say I'm

dying to hold

you--do not

attend to any manner

of speech.

you've overcome

the life of me and

drew out its arms.

likewise i you.
182 · Jul 2024
Cerberus' Post
Onoma Jul 2024
Cerberus' tri-lapsing time,
wholly materializes at the everchanging
gate of hell's undisclosed location.
three-headed hound: one head looks backward,
one head looks downward, one head looks forward.
watchful as the white candles with black flames.
his constant chain reaction of biting mouthfuls
from a disassociated body--swept with unanimous
agonies.
then viciously going at his faces & necks.
all fours in a multidirectional trounce for potential
escapees.
there's a stench so piercingly foul that it can only be
registered between retches--yet Cerberus' six
nostrils relish it.
are adept at deciphering it from the condemned
that attempt to creep.
the electrically gruff boom of his bark staying their
torn feet.
*Cerberus is the three-headed hound that guards the gate of the underworld in Greek Mythology.
182 · Mar 2023
Ganesha's Tree Trunk
Onoma Mar 2023
led lights glaze

thru their city's fixity.

Ganesha's tree trunk

flexing a limb, rarified

birds leaking out of:

feather/color/paradiso.

a light going out with its

pinprick.

the fell hose of a gale,

Ganesha's trunk spraying

at Shiva.

strips of bark--overrunning

persistent droplets at

their side.

while set for a dry hanging.
'
182 · Mar 2018
Cling to Bulbs
Onoma Mar 2018
Winter having
brought death,
has lived out
its death.
It's trying not
to die, as patches
of snow cling to
bulbs.
181 · Sep 2021
A Torrential Sleep
Onoma Sep 2021
a torrential

sleep wants

after its

torn fabric.

too finely tailored

to fit.

against the quick

of rain.
181 · Oct 2018
Bugsy
Onoma Oct 2018
i was induced

to a laughter so

wild, of whose

cause slipped out

of the box undetected...

that the moon herself

scratched her head.
181 · May 2019
Wet With Consent
Onoma May 2019
manifold kiss,

ride the daze--

lose your closed

eyes.

to the slow sugared

smack of my

withdrawing lips.

i need you lady

spring...wet with

consent.
181 · May 2022
Mimicry of Flowers
Onoma May 2022
the sky has

fallen for the

mimicry of

flowers.

over selfsame

fields, swearing

to carry on the

scent.
181 · Jul 2022
Powder-puffs of Lime
Onoma Jul 2022
there are no precursory glances

when powder-puffs of lime are

thrown against an expired wind.

scolded for the fifth time--for not

vowing ether.

as matrimonial frills wrap around

solved bones.

undivided as houses sealed shut,

where karma ensures everyone has

dinner together.
181 · Nov 2023
Misnomer
Onoma Nov 2023
an unclassified angel

dreams of wake-up...

just to uphold a sledgehammer

of clouds.

she couples with that sound,

to sing aloud.

in twune.

without a sound check.
181 · Feb 2022
Allegory of a Half
Onoma Feb 2022
no Sun--

no Moon--

simply a cave.

holed up, and there.

just there, right there.

unseeable.

both of the wings of

nothingness torn apart

in flight.

stupendous magic--

Nirvana keeps its Word.

its Word will never go

extinct in any wilderness.
181 · Jun 2021
Ensures Outage
Onoma Jun 2021
there are no

wires that will

send shivers

across the right

Voices...

until.

a storm that registers

an uncharted magnitude...

ensures outage.
180 · May 2019
Ma's Dancing
Onoma May 2019
headway stunned

brutal at the

curve--

to meet

the view.

Ma's dancing an

earth.

don't be afraid to

hold her hips.
180 · Sep 2019
A Stone Holds Itself
Onoma Sep 2019
the way distance makes an object appear

large or small--this darkness appears

very large.

as messengers of unknowing stir being--

with fewer words of freshly cut flowers

from the future's garden.

there's a feeling of how a stone holds itself

together.

paralyzed by that hold, only blinking back

with the light of mind to offer signs of

sentience.

how hard it grows in its position, yet how

paradoxically lethal grows the softness of

its love.
180 · Feb 2021
Unchained Saw
Onoma Feb 2021
sawdust

can see every

revolution of

a chainsaw.

predisposed

to a knife leaving

its mark on an

open country.

unable to lie about

seeing something

spit about like

wooded water.

catching the windless

fire of ether.
*Inspired by the ******* band, Boundaries: "Carve".
180 · Dec 2023
Iris Shot
Onoma Dec 2023
there's a black bar glister--

that strikes between the

flippant poles, of this steady

rate of rain.

while bone dry with a rain that

has letup its old footage, a present

nonevent.

an encinctured iris shot.
180 · Oct 2024
Witch's Dollhouse
Onoma Oct 2024
a witch's death mask turned up on the black
market--rumored to have shrunk herself, leaving
behind a thumb size cast.
ending up on the living room wall of an elaborately
detailed dollhouse, conjuring the whole transaction.
remanifesting like rot's backhand--her nose touching
her crutched chin, which conceals a sunken mouth
frittering away two teeth.
she pokes around the dollhouse with her *******
bouncing off her knees, as phlegmy laughter trickles
***** down bamboo stalk legs.
her *** is a wrinkly retraction, covered by strands of
white hair that appear fished-out of her skull.
she's just fertilizer patch, wet & wild about hell playing
dollhouse--& how wearing the death mask seems to
say something about her, even while pretending.
she must leave a few telling traces, so she peels off nursery
wallpaper--with leafy apples between slow to learn letters.
throws a black *** on a fireplace, making its flames shoot
up & fall like a timed fountainhead--caressing it as an
expectant mother would, the very joy of a spellbook.
until her fingers blister, and their swirlingly green prints
can be deflated--worshipping how dead skin clings to life.
then she slips into a plastic mirror & begins squeezing
blackheads from her overarching beak, until wormy ****
sprouts from the mirror.
flicked off into a limnal-drab sink, then climbs out of the
mirror & wills all her hair to shed.
exiting into the greater house to observe the man who
purchased her death mask sleep.
180 · May 2019
Unveils Herself
Onoma May 2019
the sky continually

falls...

its iris turns bluer

with

visions of other

worlds.

as the earth throws

off its circumference--

and clings to its center.

everything goes still...

&

eternity unveils herself.
180 · Jun 2021
Fin-jerk Movements
Onoma Jun 2021
an unwavering tide

knows how to lose

itself on the side

of a Pisces...

making two eyes

one on the same

side of its face,

as it bobs.

all fin-**** movements

given away freely.
180 · Feb 2024
An Ensilvered Barracuda
Onoma Feb 2024
there's an ensilvered

barracuda, seven miles

miles long.

rocking side to side,

beneath

Key West's bridge.

as if a fry, plastic-bagged

in a local pet shop.

verdigris water's teeth.
179 · Dec 2021
Lost on Place
Onoma Dec 2021
there's a desolation

that's lost on place--

a distinct body of being

consumed by nonbeing.

the excised Heart of a

mirror.

a thinning air that draws lines

of transparency.

where if one's existence

is reflected--they will never

be seen or heard from again.
179 · Jan 2022
Puppetry of Deities
Onoma Jan 2022
emotions drift away

as broken continents...

seedling stars buried

in their soil.

that will rise as the

puppetry of deities.
179 · Jan 2019
Lens Cap
Onoma Jan 2019
it turns out

that my discovery

of a well to the

center of the earth...

and a camera purchase,

coincide.

i let it fall...lens cap

still on.

the camera has

been since photoed

so many times, that

it's lifework will remain

an unshattered precedent.
179 · Nov 2023
Dark Room Genus
Onoma Nov 2023
the dark room genus

of a flower developes....

within planes of

vases.

whose stems unearth

a shattering too fine

for the boundaries of

a photo.

so a dark room may be

the genus of another

flower--all together.

a compendium of

extinction.

blooming.
178 · Mar 2018
Trichomes
Onoma Mar 2018
trichomes
hair their
razor.
as light
rises,
& color
comes
to a head.
already
given
to
uncolor.
178 · Aug 2018
Extract
Onoma Aug 2018
as the moon trickles

her contortive extract

thru

the gossamer **** switch

of stars...

i look up at her while

working my hand down

a snake hole.
178 · Mar 2019
Gouged Out
Onoma Mar 2019
as whirring petals

sound out

the mantric shape--

of a pistil's bindu-touch

of nectar.

winter's blind eye's

gouged out~
177 · Aug 2021
Inbuilt Distance
Onoma Aug 2021
as horizontal lines are lowered

to disappearance across shores.

similarly an inbuilt distance of

return keeps ones guiding star

in its over-world chamber.

regenerating something more

complete than memory--which

is what life recalls.

death the twinkle in its eye--being

overcome by the throbs of its colorful

attractions.
177 · Apr 2019
Freedom Incubates
Onoma Apr 2019
the mind scatters

our lifetime--

light mothers a

thread.

to wait out the watch

of our play.

informed while free.

it never feels like

enough--

&

just for that,

freedom incubates

the justness of longing.

cut short~
177 · Mar 2020
Aeonic Drink
Onoma Mar 2020
a vermillion serpent

with white smoke wings

and light yellow eyes,

slides off a stone cloud.

a fainting phantasma of

unheld height, meets a

stream of milk precisely its

length and width.

issuing midpoint between the

sky-ground.

knocks in its eyes, and

dislodges its jaws for an aeonic

drink.
177 · Feb 2022
Soluble Adherence
Onoma Feb 2022
Mona Lisa eyed

all the fish in her

particular Ocean,

until she betrayed

her smile.

in such a way that

anything soluble

adhered.

painted beyond

matter.
176 · Feb 2021
Rundown
Onoma Feb 2021
eyelashes

suture

their

singulated

eye.

periodically

broken

open

for a lifetime.

a

rundown of

blood.

stolen away on

dissimilar skin.
176 · Feb 2021
Equivalents
Onoma Feb 2021
the

silhouette

of

A

bonsai tree...

offers almost

no answer to

its form through

paper-thin panels.
176 · Dec 2021
Disfigurements
Onoma Dec 2021
a beast growing

thorns from his bones,

depetaling a rose-mind.

picking up on the scent

of rot.

lets out a muffled cry,

hidden among the latest

twist of crooked trees.
176 · Sep 2024
Isle of the Dead
Onoma Sep 2024
a curved stony enclosure whose seawall gives
way to hulking cliffs--with chiseled ramparts
akin to bottom cuspids.
standing before foldable reflections--aside from
the accelerating interpolation of sea-clouds, prone
to negatives.
the guiding intelligence of a flood cupped by an
isle that is unmet with a return.
its interior of entryways are desolate modulators
of tides.
as the two main entrances to the isle set stone apart,
the first as ruggedly cut indicators--the second as
altar-immaculatus blocks.
its baselevel of algae--fed by browning runoffs of rain,
along cracks filled with ivy.
leading into cypress trees expecting late visitors, with
an adamance that gives an odd calm to the out-of-place.
though they unnaturally crowd & surpass their enclosure,
with a tingle of wildflowers anticipating them.
making a point of something, already at its most advanced
stage--withholding a shade solid enough not to have been
under a burning phos.
come the skewed vision of a boat, progressing in the way
of water.
the sea peering at the back of the void's head, as it's shone
upon.
the forward tilt of a boatman's oared tension--stiffly even
keel, with enough momentum to float to the isle.
the boat becomes sensationless...the figure in the white
shroud knows nothing else but what is about to transpire.      
as if Lazarus dazedly brought to his feet, remaining there
for all the world.
the only thing that the cypress trees can see, as take into
their shade the coffin.
*Isle of the Dead, is a painting by Swiss Symbolist artist: Arnold Bocklin.
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