B. Sven Telander Poems

Slender messenger ringed with song
telling beguiling lies to a fraudulent
audience, malingering harbinger,
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A cold volcano holds muse to bludgeon with a touch,
magma of sorrow quickens to lava tears streaming
toward ancient silver city with icons in the clutch,
for any willing victims who waken to the dreaming:
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Rhapsodic practitioners of
esoteric optics, ringmasters
of the retinal circus-

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In the carcass of the circus
there lay an unburned page
appointing and anointing
another mage upon a stage.
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Butterflies tap
against the glass
of greater vision.
Staring at the disguise
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Sweeping up feathers
and broken stained glass
on an infinite Sunday,
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In that vast library of
escheristic mobia,
shelves ran twisting

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Shunted through a maelstrom-
in thrall to the oblique resonance
of doctored dreams, fraudulent
desires, forecasting regrets; smiling
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A density of
mothering confetti,
flesh windows on
a skin walled
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