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DISHEVELED ZENITH OF OUR LOVE (By Joseph Cavera)   Your eyes cannot judge me Your hands cannot truly hold You wait for me in the Darkness Your words so misguided Your affection soon to be derided You await me again, as I leave my mark You open your arms to me, unsuspecting You permit me to oblige your lust You […]

WIPEOUT OF 2033 (By Joseph Cavera)   Golden ribbons flutter and fold down the sides of the tallest building I have ever seen. At the skyscraper’s peak, A tall man watches His ramifications unfold down to the world below his scythe is grander than any instrument of teeming Death than any could possibly envision. The clouds of Obsidian in their […]

THE ADVANCING BIOSPHERE (By Joseph Cavera)     From the new, fly the old Species and spaces, forever fold into the zone of Daphne’s trees little finches none the wiser progression cannot freeze   of course…   They rang the tones of this old show years and years and years ago then old ships came to her feet and a […]

LUMINOUS MOON IN US (By Joseph Cavera)   Once erected, now dejected lies Earth in downcast flumes Breaking apart but not dissected, she spouts deluging plumes This rock, once a vast collection of life, waits at certain latitudes The organisms who inhabited it had greater issues than poor attitudes Among the remnants of humanity, lies scrap, as anarchy rules Steel […]

VERMILLION SPACE (By Joseph Cavera)   Think of all the ways we do The things that run all our days through At that clever standing pace Fly up this world’s human race   I’d sooner see black comets pass Than the fall of upper brass At least the Earth’s still free and here That’s just till I disappear…   So […]

FRANKFURT PIG (By Joseph Cavera)   There once was a pig from Frankfurt, Who found he had grime on his shirt, He believed neither eye As he sullied a silk tie After spending a day, or two, in the dirt   Now our dear friend had a quandry “How could such pure muck come upon me?” I can’t go wrong […]

FALL TONES (By Joseph Cavera)   A young lad awakes to cold on Sunday Stirring slowly, quakes to life his way His covers like lovers unravel above Another of is brothers leaving a shove   He sees the light peak through his door It glistens through the glass o’er The window that sits by Reflecting and resonating with Images of […]

DARKWATER BEACH (By Joseph Cavera)   The moon lies low On the blackened shores The tide is impenetrable Under this darkening sky Mirth so absent, in the undertow The ravishing darkness, from longevic lores Each wave skips- inimitable This place is different! Cries out the wistful cores Life out here is scarcer But at peace. The Darkness is not always […]

THE LOVE BUSINESS (By Joseph Cavera)   It’s never simple, This business you, you know Be it fading ripples Ebb and flow The rises and falls never cease To come, and go   And yet…we persist We press on with what we are While the pain seems to insist That reality shapes a scar Not one we see or sense […]