Mark Pashia


god #23

god swallowed a star
and juggled
twelve shimmering moons

perfect angels
painted the sky pink
and winged messengers
breathed blue
into the oceans

i

am a stone
yet unturned

lissa and me

i wrote of you............and of me
i wrote.........of us
and found our story
not in the words
but in the structure

we are a run on sentence
flush with literary license
filled with undotted i's
and uncrossed t's

a chapter less story
a book without bind
a tale of two
whose ending
is conspicuously absent

god #209

i see things
with eyes tinted blue
i find solace in scarecrows
and gods in the gutter

i pray on tuesdays
to remember forgotten promises
and drink of virtue
only after midnight

choices are black and gray

the sinner seldom finds redemption
the innocent
lives a life of white
i dream of gold rings
and grasping salvation with my last breath

i sought the truth
and found the truth was just an anti-lie
that i was god
and god was smiling

smiling from the catatonic sky




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Note: god #23 and god#209 were previously published in Pierian Springs.