martin.strangeStained WindowI look out a stained window onto a flooding bank as storm chased clippers anchor below the cliff and wonder when the rains will come and…Sep 4, 2021Sep 4, 2021
martin.strangeThree FourthsWith this praying for revival, Think we now our pardon near? One might think if it were coming Pressed for time, it would be here.Mar 14, 2020Mar 14, 2020
martin.strangeinStrange PoetryThe Image of the KeyThe image of the key, imprinted, carved ceremoniously like an instinct, like an infant’s first breath, a scream, or the peeping frogs…Jan 31, 2020Jan 31, 2020
martin.strangeinStrange PoetryA BetrayalYou’re quick to call it a betrayal, a shift in mood, an aural metempsychosis, like a fly granted liberties from the spider’s web or the…Jan 30, 20201Jan 30, 20201
martin.strangeinPoets UnlimitedStung with reliefCaged the sun between my fingers rang the bell for morning stars swept the dust storms under carpets led the violet away from Mars fetched…Jul 10, 2019Jul 10, 2019
martin.strangeinStrange PoetrySomber OrangeHer face was on the water, rippling, a sad smile, forlorn, the brook was trickling, a memory submerged, a soul shorn, a Psyche buried in…Jul 5, 2019Jul 5, 2019
martin.strangeinStrange PoetryClimbing Holy MountainsThere is a ban on climbing holy mountains fences ring it round in orange plastic with little signs declaiming, in official prayers, the…May 31, 2019May 31, 2019
martin.strangeinPoets UnlimitedA Viking RiddleNow besiege our viking impulse sliding iceward between lines glove-ed fists and sticks bent crooked sacred fires and sacred cups are thine…May 30, 2019May 30, 2019
martin.strangeinPoets UnlimitedCamus & CasablancaGone to sepia, faded, like the photograph of a forgotten company out in the sands of Morocco, wind-swept vistas framed by makeshift…Apr 14, 2019Apr 14, 2019
martin.strangeinPoets UnlimitedSmoky SunriseTen skies to Albuquerque, ten more breaths and a new home, new lungs to breathe, new stars shining, and fragrant lint-strewn meadows with…Feb 26, 20191Feb 26, 20191