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99 · Apr 25
Indie Flick
Onoma Apr 25
Planes of adjusting light stack thin--

too slow not to meet crookedly.

A broken window on an apple's cheek,

in line with a branch.

Not a sky in the sky--not even a

shadow's deflated ego, but a far

greater eater.

There's a world left out for just that--

which one exactly?

Would you know a horror movie from

the flashes on a vacant seat?

It's like death taking a pass.

Where letting go, goes.
Onoma Mar 2024
her face is a gaunt rosebush--

whose thornage & leafage

periodically shear off roses.

as if they were a pile on of

hands.

she squints thru this with

turquoise eyes, those vivid

breakthroughs you get.

her hair's the long entanglement--

of the rueful moistening of night.
99 · Feb 2019
Pink Elephants
Onoma Feb 2019
when you

spread open,

all i see are

candy-glazed

pink elephants.
99 · Sep 2020
Favorite Song
Onoma Sep 2020
imagine hearing

your favorite song

among inharmonious

company.

as the vibes play themselves.

on repeat, but remain

loyal to their favorite song.

when there is One.
99 · Jun 2024
Too Well Anon
Onoma Jun 2024
sometimes there's an existent

persuasion, that shadows individually

agree to blend in, As.

that is--they enter.

you know they've entered, having

conjured them, too well anon.

a merciful mark that appears &

disappears--hiding for your sake.

known by import, that which seeks

the gratification of seeing...but not

being seen.
99 · Oct 2020
Lay-limbo
Onoma Oct 2020
the better of October

throws up its eyes to leave

its body of work, as its dank

and knobby fingers *****

at pelt-pocking raindrops.

glazing the orange skin of

pumpkins, that seem livid

with night-sweats.

flanked greys and eye-sore

whites resolve into a lay-limbo

inertial enough to be stumbled

upon.
99 · Jun 2024
Three & a Half Eyes
Onoma Jun 2024
a dot.

the tip of a

serpent's tail nestled

between its tongue.

razzing.

have you a coiled

pebble--

a blizzard parsing

its skin smoothly.

vestigial colorations,

as if three & a half eyes

see nothing else.
99 · Mar 2019
Starry Number
Onoma Mar 2019
your starry

number

wish-binges.

fat with the

heart of zero.
99 · Jan 2019
One O One
Onoma Jan 2019
light is far

more bowel-loosening

than dark.

samadhic dispatch.

One O One~
Onoma Jun 2024
personification hurriedly tries

on three ways of narration,

in the bathroom stall of a

fast food restaurant.

the disused rapidity of a

flushing cycle.

you getting excited about your

weekend--in an anonymity

that convinces you of

sexiness.
99 · Feb 2019
Vampire's Secret
Onoma Feb 2019
the sun's

a vampire's

secret

glory hole.
98 · Mar 2024
Nightly Bluffing
Onoma Mar 2024
the thick of thick,

thickens---the thin of

thin, thins.

as said, in all--as a tree.

as trees.

subject to inkblot cavities of nightly

bluffing.

encompassed by wind--

what the invisible relies on

as a sound which's more

than a single sound.
98 · May 2024
Misses the Eclipse
Onoma May 2024
a mastered

fetal position--

misses the

eclipse.
98 · Aug 2021
Unspoiled Light
Onoma Aug 2021
the coiter of this dim

flay outlives the animal.

brushed aside with a

meticulous stroke--bade

bright to the tail end of

an exodus.

hunted off lands that can

never show their faces again.

there with the precise moment

when meat goes bad in unspoiled

light.
Onoma Apr 2020
my sister sent me a smarting

pic of livestream Greek Orthodoxy--

three hundred something were watching

the resurrection.

the masked altar boy to the left rapt in

ritual, leaning down to retrieve revelation.

the priest at the head whose turned back broadened

the unaswerable, sung thru unsmelled incense.

backed iconically by Byzantine saints saying their peace.

brandishing the goldest silences you

never did hear.
98 · May 2021
Lighting Wanted Thunder
Onoma May 2021
lightning wanted

thunder in

reverse...

just to strike a

TREE.

charred to

foliage.

where it stood.
98 · Dec 2024
Tarantism No. 1
Onoma Dec 2024
they had to exorcise it--that thing in the air, that thing in the water.
earth, then something other--that's how
it happened.
not the dance instruction of a tarantula to sweat out venom, but by the lived
eschatology of medievals.
worked off in mass dances (tarantism)--
till exhaustion/death.
as if they were the herd of swine that
evil spirits were cast into.
the Gadarene demoniac which Jesus
eighty sixed, caught sniffing around tombs, en route the left-hand path.
bells rung by flies, leeches bled out the: I, flames ran up the: I--heresy!
blood/yellow bile/black bile/phlegm--
the slop bucket fluids of: The Four Humours.
corresponding to the four dispositions, the four ages, the four elements--a feast
of fools attempting to psych-out wodnesse.
as medievals finger-pointed in their sleep, exacerbating toothless drool while
giving over a name.
smoky villages trampled with commotion, then nothing--closed doors taking on a
life of their own.
peace like a frozen juggler, beside a breathless flutist, you could trip over prayer only to look up at an inquisitor.
98 · Mar 2024
Stolid Panels
Onoma Mar 2024
stolid panels

record the tantamount

whisps of a paintbrush.

the nervous punctuality...

of a cherry blossom

reascending the stasis of

its petals.

in the throat of early March.
98 · Sep 2020
Overspilling Film Reel
Onoma Sep 2020
there is an

overspilling

film reel too

deadly to

render thus--

serpents tonguing

flashes of light.
98 · Mar 2024
Maria Mou
Onoma Mar 2024
Thespian Keyria...

yah panda.

Maria Mou.
98 · Mar 5
Saint Roughly
Onoma Mar 5
Over eight billion doings factor into this

doing, Disconnection Awareness Month's

moment.

I am saint: Roughly.

A non-excercise, like following your

pointer finger to the tip of your nose--

cross-eyed by its invasive warmth.

My ruling planet Venus supervenes, I

suggest she find a ruling planet.

Right now I **** an angel with kindness,

as she flashes her radiant ***--we both

see an opening.

Who brought what out in whom?

At any point I am fixed, at no point is she

fixed--yet.

She comes by proxy to intercept me.

Her symmetry's between worlds, even

though I run my hand between her

*******.

She rides her distance on my closeness,

we end up where we end up.
98 · Sep 2021
Whole of the House Up
Onoma Sep 2021
the vainglorious changes

clarity on bedsheets,

after leaving them there.

celibate scales choosing a

fine stone, to remember

what comes of accusatory

skeins.

itching at any serpentine

shame, with the whole house

up.
98 · Jul 2020
Thunder Clapping Feathers
Onoma Jul 2020
profound sensitivity

surrounds itself with

elusiveness.

the avoidant legacy of

a feast of nerves.

thunder clapping feathers.

protecting against what

will be the death of, its

perfect fit.

all that pure nourishment of

a world standing on end.

elusiveness surrounded--

becoming Itself.
98 · Dec 2024
Shelved
Onoma Dec 2024
nonentity's curvature won't

return from its hermetic seal.

moved to envelopement.

as someone turning a corner,

that you'll never see again.

its depth & volume wound all the

way (an unknown).

despite this side of its curvature

making it so (a known).

something among billions of six

senses coincide to keep it both

sealed & unsealed.

curvature canceled out--shelved.
97 · Apr 23
Throws Off a Dot
Onoma Apr 23
In a substantially backed corner,

stranger than the safety of deep

thought--a spider throws off a dot.

In a house in part, sunlight lets on

in the same way.

As the sound of temperate beams

throw off a house.
97 · Jan 2024
Behaving in Roots
Onoma Jan 2024
there's a tree stump--

bagging water.

i mean, over accounting

for rings.

as rain comes down.

wrought bark.

behaving in roots...

thought of often.
97 · Jan 2019
Going Blind
Onoma Jan 2019
too much

has already

been politely

asked.

but sight has

met it's last

resort...before

the fact.

i want to look

into your eyes,

please...you've

got me going

blind.

as with the whole

of this reality...

i don't know why.
***To My Twin Flame***
97 · May 2020
Joker's Triumphal Scene
Onoma May 2020
it's wild, the film:

"Joker" seemed to

presage what Gotham

is starting to look like.

there are very many of

which too much freedom

is getting away from.

it is indeed getting very

crazy out there.
97 · Dec 2024
Airlifted by BC & AD
Onoma Dec 2024
the sky was crookedly airlifted by BC & AD--as two strangers walked toward one
another on a sidewalk.
wanting to appear polite, they both delayed choosing a side in which to cross paths.
consequently--they both chose to do so mere feet away.
a blend of of irritation & awkwardness held them right before they veered aside.
recent memory is hardly history, so any unlearned lesson may not be doomed to repeat it.
their day will be comprised of more subtle & overt disparities as this.
surely there was a place from which they emerged & will return to--in which they encounter themselves in a similar fashion.
a place of fanatic familiarity, a place where things don't dare move--as not to
displease their master.
a place where a degree's dereliction would rack them subconsciously.
who knew homemaking could be a dark little art.
even if you subvert personal history & the world from which it hails--you've still done nothing.
the most controlled environment, which one has to work hard to interface with as a: "known"--doesn't sit tight.
its alchemy uses this life, this world--for starters.
whereas subject & object keep crossing paths as different subjects & objects.
97 · Aug 2020
Compensatory Charms
Onoma Aug 2020
when the moon

calls her own name,

and responds to it.

tides flood away.

every which wave a

fully responsive lover.

overcoming her beyond

phases.

water seeing thru change,

compensatory charms

too full for nakedness.
97 · Apr 2020
Pencil Lines
Onoma Apr 2020
there's a math

yea big, can you

account for that

height?

akin to a small

one too big

for drawing pencil

lines.

making linearity redundant.

or one too small to

hold a pencil,

which may be equally

true of the big one.

without equalling.

measuring up

to a bedroom wall.

the grandest cross

that never lettered a

number, that never

numbered a letter.
97 · Jan 9
Viscera's Whoof
Onoma Jan 9
a ******* dog

locked out of a mirror--

let out a threshold's

whoof.

Manson's warlock

gobbledygook played

backwards--viscera's

whoof!

a neighborhood's

vacancy intruded--

drifted by like

lubracative film over

eyes.

winter cerulean

searching for blue.
97 · Jan 2024
Leathery Exo-glove
Onoma Jan 2024
nightmares purport--a

****** furnace, or the face

lift of beauty sleep.

Wes Craven's optometry.

cast Freddy Krueger,

whose red/green sweater's

color schema, is said to be

the hardest to assimilate.

leathery exo-glove.

metallic nails...manicured

with taunting scratches.
97 · Dec 2018
Refining Fires
Onoma Dec 2018
by all these

refining fires,

that live out

lives.

this fire outleaps

what it consumes.

watching intently

where flame parts

with smoke.

that look in your

eyes, mine...ours.

final fold.
97 · Mar 20
Vacuum Tracks
Onoma Mar 20
Solidities love to give their spiel on

distance, as anthill multitudes are

dispersed by feet.

To the tune of whole houses jostling

around unissued shadows, armed with

soundless chimes.

Worked up to spit's private tiffs pelting

pavement, tracked onto the vacuum

tracks of living room carpets.

While a little boy getting called inside,

holds up a glass jar to a star.

Sighing hand-swipes of evening reads

drifting off into the context & tone of

certain conversations (the day's).

Space airing out its fringless purity,

clanks with clanking plates--runs with

running water.

Suddenly there's a judicious ring that

dissolves just as it's accepted.
97 · Mar 2019
Nothing to Let Flow
Onoma Mar 2019
she read me

aloud as her

most profound

silence.

******* up voided

faces, that keep

surfacing.

substantiated like

a tongue's water-burn.

with nothing to let flow...

or put out.
97 · Feb 2024
Humanoid Eiffel Tower
Onoma Feb 2024
a topsy turvy jig

repolished the patinaed

brass.

of a statue lent to liberty.

a humanoid eiffel tower--

with Atlantic hopefuls.

vomiting on her sandals--

here & there.
97 · Jan 2020
Ravening
Onoma Jan 2020
trying to get a foot

up on this ravening chest--

you lost balance.

fell to the forest ground--

left to the elements.

starving.

trying to get your fill

of that stark white sky.

the breaker broken.

now you know what

was let in.
96 · Mar 2024
Brand New Floral Genus
Onoma Mar 2024
sensual explosions

reoccur everywhere--

as our higherup

publicly masturbates

another spring.

even throwing in a

handful of brand new

floral genus.
96 · Dec 2024
Contra-Smokescreen
Onoma Dec 2024
the fog tweaked its percentage of

visibility--as if to pull London across the

pond.

on my left periphery, headlights turned

black rails into a sudden downpour of

spaced glints.

elegance without inclemency.

further down, the upper floors of a lofty

apartment building wore the unreadable

glow of a mothership.

its discursive headway of private agendas

contra-fog.

then fog contra-smokescreen, carpe

noctem coordinates of drones following

suit.

as if high strangeness stooping to our

level--the field's too unfied for that.
96 · Feb 5
For Want of Phylum
Onoma Feb 5
For want of phylum, a beast strode out

into the coliseum of self-image.

Having slept without a countable care,

knowing peace is good meat.

Among the famous nows of non-doers,

religiously in alternate futures.

Swear that you remind them of someone,

or something they'd rather not be

reminded of.

Perhaps they've already been alive too

long, but not ahead of any timeline.

Which is always no one's concern, these

bodies that will have to go: number three

(beyond biology).

How many would opt for a slap on the

*** on their way out, to commerate their

way in?

That would be like a coroner pinning

open someone's eyes, & telling them it's

impolite to stare.

Simple truths are too much knowledge,

whereas all other sentient life dies

gracefully.

This beast under-lives & over-dies,

because simple truths are too much

knowledge.

Follow that thought wherever it goes,

with your neighbor's mind--then have a

conversation with a stray cat.
96 · Jul 2020
Pompeiian Mosaics
Onoma Jul 2020
a reticulating

take away--

action shot.

volcanic ash

on Pompeiian

mosaics.
96 · Jul 2024
Scar Their Spheres
Onoma Jul 2024
die of those deaths,

hunt them down--

scar their spheres.

canvas their haunts,

while they too sleep.
Onoma Feb 2024
balloons blow bubbles

from their reflecting

temples.

in all kinds of weather--

as children keep them

inflated.

swarming around

exospheres.
96 · May 2019
Least Hungry Ghost
Onoma May 2019
The Head

of the

table

excuses

the least

hungry

ghost.
Onoma Jan 23
Flinstone Vitamins' **** gush of fruity

dust, had an upside-down

convalescing taste.

Very much like the pre-attendence of a

body learning to show up.

A plastic red binder with checks &

minuses.

Birth trauma fluorescent lights

reabsorbing impact against iron mesh

windows.

Jittering along patterns of early

education, somewhere to decipher the

hand let go of.

Which sometimes led to unsophisticated

cruelties on behalf of survival.

A windowless classroom can't properly

educate imagination, windows are

quiet recharges for the retainment of

information.

How the smell of cafeteria food felt far

more personal because it wasn't

homemade.

how every: classroom/gymnasium/

auditorium/cafeteria/playground could

sound like a sqwaked-apart conversation.

Its coronal call.

Prostrated by a whistle or blowhorn from

on high--just when we were trying to

******* tell one another that it's really

a Mystery School.
96 · Jan 2024
Light Snow
Onoma Jan 2024
snow  throws down

a blanket.

overaccumulation.

supping stars on

an upside down

cone.
96 · Apr 2020
Pint Size Helium Balloons
Onoma Apr 2020
now when the silence of the

urban sprawl dialates, and its

shell becomes an exquisite ear.

the whiny cries of newborn

pigeons raise from the tops of

air conditions and terraces.

pint size helium balloons releasing

sound.

i caught a rare glimpse of one

of these choristers being fed beak to

beak by its mother.

its whittled white face and crown of

grey, contrasted by the steel storefront

sealed shut.
Onoma May 5
As if patiently positioned for a

photograph at every stage of life.

Right now.

The promise of stillness.

Directly facing the greatest

composure.

Indeed.

Today I was poured upon while

speaking to someone in the same

burrough--that said it wasn't raining.

There was so much rain in their voice,

that I didn't feel the rain.

I walked with a purpose that came from

the ground offering itself twice,

never one to rush initiation.

Having heard the official stories of where

people are in their lives, I did what a

main character does when he covers the

distance narrated to the present.

I walked home.
96 · Jun 16
Sunday Bastard
Onoma Jun 16
Sunday ******* popped into

his head.

He had to write about a:

Sunday ******* & didn't know why.

While rain showed streets photos of

itself--he thought about a

Sunday *******.

It was already dark out when it popped

into his head, which made it more

interesting.

Then it came like it was always there,

it was Father's Day.

Already bored by the subconscious irony,

he pouted at the Sunday *******.
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