Photo ©️Orion Foote Auburn Brogue (Four Chinese Quatrains)I broach the chill of deep night:my cape trimmed neat in black braid.In times of strife, this heart cries -yet sings of you as dreams fade.Our bairn was fair – her pale voice a thrush-like song from warm nest;smiled like the sun at first light;small face turned withContinue reading “Auburn Brogue”
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Byline from Blacks Point
Byline from Blacks Point Rewind to a church on the rise:we’re making rough cutslike Burroughs & Matisse,getting down to businessoutside on the lawn, where fishingangels catch us unawares.Inside, antiquated minutes baskcover to cover – wheeled outfor a good once over –itching for a footnotein this time weathered collage;our own past turned inanimate,as though in glassContinue reading “Byline from Blacks Point”
The Ventriloquist
The Ventriloquist It’s contagious –all this spirit writing.Voices from the other sidebreathing down my neckevery five minutes – buttoned upin starch & lace – lips pursed,sharing a private joke in silence. The familiar surgeof unexpurgated words,exploding like glassinside the cranial suite –overturning tableslike Jesus on a bender;hammering home the pointand he doesn’t care who knowsContinue reading “The Ventriloquist”
Visions of Orion Poetry 