HAMLET
written by: Steven Fortune
‘Anthropomorphic’
easily (and oddly
coherently) enraptures
the taste buds
with phonetic evocations
of cashmere
in the amphitheaters of
magnetic teeth
Melodic syllables
chaperone the exclusivity
of God and Darwin’s
Dueling Duo Century Club
And how rational
the rubber dolphin enthrallment
becomes there
Riding them
and the rubber
in the jubilee
of wet summers
and in cartoons absurding
the premise of a carnal
cleanliness and freshly trimmed
private parts
A human struggles to attune
to animal affiliations
in reprieve from the green
supervisions of Disney and Orwell
Humans have hearts
where and when
all the other animals have clocks
Only one exception
watered down to a manageable
caricature
Sometimes it is easier
and more rational
more coherent even
to annul the vows of poison
for the virgin ivy’s labial embrace
Maybe something else talks
Maybe then the human grows
- The Moment of Clarity - February 1, 2023
- The Last Poet - July 29, 2022
- Brooding Cross - May 21, 2022
