Umbriate Press Poetry

Poetry Posts

  • Obit # 1

    The roaming wood Wonders over the man Flesh to earth  Bone to root  Blood to dew When the wind whistles through his soul The kudzu wraps around the neck Chokes the canopy   The weakest part And fells the body before the seed can drop Read more

  • Hitomaro to his wife Yosami

    It has been too long I wade into battle shackled by regret The Demon’s Tongue I gathered for you Our last night together Does it still sting your thighs With thoughts of my hands Floating toward your dreams? Demon’s Tongue is a flower known for its strong but pleasant scent and forked petals, often a Read more

  • Yosami (wife to Hitomaro)

    Yosami (wife to Hitomaro)

    Whenever I think of you I see the muddy waters of The wandering Ionamo River Sweep over your ghostly smile As your body floats away To meet the horizon Read more

  • Morning Like Any Other

    The well sits empty Near the shed in ashes As the transformational grammar Of seasons snakes along A bewildered meaning Portending sense of nonsense By any exegetic measure A world whose beauty  Condemns it to death. Read more

  • Paradise Relinquished

    Paradise Relinquished

    For some Want of other             Lingers an Onerous gall Hanging low From the thinnest branch Of the tree of First thoughts             Liminal semiotic birth Thus the eternal crooked semi-circle             Shoulder-gazing Unknowing where and when Blood will hunger Read more

  • Horizon’s Text Bent

    Horizon’s Text Bent

    Horizon’s text bent Unravels along its Farthest rim Inked of sun-drenched script No eye shall ever read Drops off into how  memory is born Read more