5 poems
by William Mollohan
diablogue
statuesque mourning roulette
images ouí reflect
without within mannequin
horizon’s grey bandit
smerkwhistles round my vanity
sink mirror light
cement griffin gargoyle
spired of my castle whispers
prime primp mas-que-ara-cha-rade
mindful pilgrim grooms
glamour belt-harnassed rides backseat
facades are for others
mindful pilgrim conscious traveler
plans unfixed thought unthought
need not redux nay reduction
monologue
inner dialogue
with in within
Horizon
No
Thereafter dimness sunlight scant
Locked doorway now open slightly
passage
as near death
begets birthed brilliance
Man is child scrawny
Moments soon months
Diapered cradled hands caressing
Stumbling mumbling feeding needed
hands holding crying some
incoherent tears family disrupted
schedule
eventually— sleeps
brilliance brightness brilliance
opposite bedroom questionable independence
Child into Man moments
scatter brain blossoming growing
invincible
9 o’clock 3 o’clock
Years sketchy calendars
Work midday
Later midday
work calendars sketchy years
3 o’clock 9 o’clock
Invincible growing blossoming
brain scatter moments
Man into child
independence questionable
Bedroom opposite
brilliance brightness
Brilliance sleeps —eventually
Schedule disrupted
Family tears
Incoherent some
crying
Holding hands
needed feeding
Mumbling stumbling
caressing hands
Cradled diapered
Months soon moments
Scrawny child is man
Brilliance bright birthed begets
Death near as passage
slightly open
Now doorway locked
scant
sunlight
dimness
thereafter
no horizon
Plaza Horizonal
human race
beyond post-modern—
plaza Now
condition Horizonal
as if
new day’s
Now sunlight
shines on
future present
light traversing
present prism
dispersing beyond
spectral theorem
human existence
around lies
under scores
existánce humane
essence personal
enveloped envelOped
disallowed unveil—
Foyer congregants
welcome all
delineate desti-tunity
Rideshare
driving people where
situations varied when
reasons needs wants what
circumstances thoughts plans how
destinations why
Mud
raindrops puddles soles and mud
wet dirt sloshes through my toes
barefoot children play
dancing laughing freestyling
dirt—
just add water