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Poetry: Parnassus, Best Band, and Birth

written by Katherine Factorfor Venus Rising Magazine

Taurus 08 Issue

Parnassus

they came down

from higher ground

barely moved

mistaken

boulders rolled

peak to belly

plateau nestling

two crags

some band

of stars fallen

tidbits stressed

pillared ruins

tripod pieces

spurned the chasm

where the steam

was a given

music stoked air.

Best Band

 

Always says something

 

 

about waves

 

 

love and waves

 

 

how similar

 

 

they seem

 

to skim the same

 

author

 

 

original band swears this

swatch

 

gives it

 

 

the throes

 

 

so unthorn water

 

 

 

blatant traipse

 

 

 

slathering beats

 

  

the gripping born

 

 

spell

 

 

is thrown


Birth

He modern seaman

done not with duty, gone godly,

dunking into the crucible,

served up the father for the mother

release.  Having served he

understood my gang

With him then, when they all dove in,

riding plastic but detailed porpoises.

My purpose left to sacs, foam

forming,

                    
leavening waves,

loving their rip

swell hit.  I swam sideways,

and got out.  Then still

him.  Hope lapping up

and in that following,

all our music loosed and freedots

 

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