Friday, February 26, 2016

Haunting is all

Haunting is all
“Get out”

The rudest address
Spirit dragging
Way- caught
In hailing

At most spectral
Height of mark it
Hauling limbs
Too smoke dance
Nearly- extinguished
Reeling











Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Down on all fours

Down on all fours
To four ladders
Pulp of fingers
Wrought, trundled
Iron

Bees on the lawn
Secretly code
Fleeing the tower

Avoid the stairs
Screaming
The storm spends
A night











Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Monday, February 22, 2016

The mechanicals

The mechanicals
Bugged in
Off hours
Unself-made
Men

Cheever’s boiler
Quits
In winter
Miller’s sump
Clogs
In spring

Forever
Infernal
Twisting
There
Authors









Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Vain architecture

Vain architecture
Unfaithful, vertical
Hangs like paper

The sky laid down

At base
Our crowd
Did houses
Bloom

Unfounded
Are missing
Continents









Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Baked into

Baked into
The architecture
Inadvertent, minus
A wonderful choice
Of footage
Continuing
A grit on war
Independent of
What 
Life hands us












Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

A mark

A mark
On which
A bowl
Standing for years
A marble slab
Had been
















Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Bison will be

Bison will be
On the ground
Introduced
When wanting
My ears lie
Too my eyes

Once you laid
These stories down
What warmth enrobed
You plain

So an interior decorator
Faked this particular
History











Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Friday, February 12, 2016

A heart quarters


A heart quarters
Succor
Four- squared
Inside
Its spacey odyssey

Where wolf- winter circulates
The unforgiven wind
And the blood of ice
Splayed outside
Its astral sleeve
We count on
Constellations
Warming the sky
To continence

O well
I’ll seek the moon at your throat
As you echo through pebbles













Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Promising independent horror

Promising independent horror
Almost any developed nation
In icy sea caves
So assist great minds
To delegate
Their worth in salt
Cast headless before
The horses of wisdom
Pounding on
A gavel plain










Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Saturday, February 6, 2016

The opportunity has arisen

The opportunity has arisen
For me to fill
A rather large
And beautiful space
Where, less tangible
Efforts can scale

Everyone is welcome
To take 
As many risks
This square offers
Incline that character
Not important 
To its stories













Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Friday, February 5, 2016

By the time

By the time
I was taken in
By your myth
Matched socks
I was late
In putting on
My flying shoes















Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Shocking photos

Shocking photos
Of what people
Actually have
Done imagined
I guess those
Early withdrawals
Dodged a mess
Of cold turkey












Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

When does the marsh

When does the marsh
Begin I forgot
Again
Rolling close
By the road
Widened too
Close by
Someone’s crowded
Family plot
A deadman’s curve
Leading to
A reformed church
That kind of linear
Time











Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

At flood stage

At flood stage
The camera
On the bridge
No longer works
Its shutter locks

Trees ply
Tipping hands
Outstretched, downstream

The sky lows
Touching the tops
Of my ears

No song occurs
To my eyes
Nor brings water
To my mouth














Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016

Monday, February 1, 2016

Well nothing

Well nothing
Could prepare
Me constellation
Like that
Sampled
Once in a life
Time finding
Just the right
Red early
Detection is life
Saving
This wildly
Original art
At least
At this
Major destination
Here you will
Find texture











Tom McGlynn
copyright 2016