Turquoise Monster

Old sinew, old bone Leather wrinkled, shrink wrapped Flapping, sagging Just bags of desiccation Flesh on bones, soft as down Veins mapping Time skitters Slips past Unaware

Spider spider on the wall How very quickly you appear to crawl Legs in series spiked and barbed With fangs of poison you are armed Deadly to those tiny pray Injected, digested whilst they lay Spun in a cocoon of silk A late lunch of insect milk Spider spider on the wall What’s the eight […]

Red and white striped Flying smooth over Washed hills Pilot dreaming Of new days Peaked cap Climbs more aloft

The butterfly catcher had death in his eyes The butterfly catcher never stopped to ask why He pinned and staked and labeled each one When asked he would claim he was just having fun Though no smile ever touched his lips No affection came, no lovers kiss For he had endlessly watched the fly And […]

A recording of my song Summer Sun. Summer Sun by Salaric

Encased in stone, the bones of the lizard lies Weathered and worn, preserved but millennia dead

Face in stone Carved and craved Face of curve Angel in jade

Relic in torch light Nothing but fragments Held by byssal threads Detritus floats Within the beam The diver explores A mystery of the mud

Click Swirl Click Blink Click Flash Click Click CLICK

A note to the girl With pony tailed hair Left undelivered Shyness drove it away No bungy jump At your side