Month: November 2022

Heavy Metal Leaf

Winds thrash.  There’s a hardcore dance,
a breakdown of a slam song,
fractured parts, elements of rust,
steel strength guitars, electrified casting
from a playing limb.  Ironclad parts
fall onto earth’s drumming, singing.

–Lucia Kiersch Haase
Spring Valley, IL

                       A DEAD DIE

A die should never be alone.
We’re revered in a pair.
We thrive on the gambler’s toss
Their hopes and their despair.
But deserted in a gutter?
So naked… so bare…

–Paul Karrer podcasts