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| Dustin Pickering |
DIM EYES
for my aunt
Her
eyes do not dim as oceans drown
forests
of weeded fears, hollow charms rather unbloomed.
Molecules
dance their poisonous gatherings, grabbing the crotch
of
disease and dread—agony is a bitch with the crucifix
but
GOD will be toward You, Hand of pure sentences.
She
forever guards my body in the blackened door.
When
grief frightens my locked teeth ajar,
She
frees my mind from peril and pension.
Complete
and kiss’d by solitary pleasure,
post-mortem
sanctuary you visit:
one
day we will all be in the hovering spaces
***
THE FACE
Then
the face
comes
closer—
what
is it?
I
am this ghost
of
primrose
heaven
where
beacons
are sweetly
broken
swollen
and
startled
by sad
safety…
what is it?
the face
in the door
taller than death
the night
will break
***
PENELOPE’S
BRUSHSTROKE
I
burn your kisses
like
midnight oil, o treachery,
and
your guess is as good as mine—
The
wonderment of Achilles,
his
stolen archeries,
the
mind of time devouring sight
from
timid wrack & filth,
I
will not love,
I
will not hold,
no
more.
your
eyes,
in
this behemoth
painted
by death
o treachery
And
Achilles ran with the fire
from
my heart,
and Thief, o Dream!
you
were never a beginning
nor
an end
and
the flame beseech the goldenrod
where
your grace sees mercy,
sees mercy for the silence is fickle…
***
Dustin Pickering is founder of
Transcendent Zero Press. He has contributed writing to Huffington
Post, Caf├й Dissensus Everyday, The Statesman (India), Journal
of Liberty and International Affairs, The Colorado
Review, World Literature Today, and several other publications. He
placed in the top 100 out of 12,500 entries for the erbacce prize in 2021 and
was a finalist in Adelaide Literary Journal’s first short fiction contest. He
was longlisted for the Rahim Karim World Prize in 2022 and given the honor of
Knight of World Peace by the World Peace Institute that same year. He hosts the
popular interview series World Inkers Network on YouTube.
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