richard ilnicki

When the mysterious'They' finally do decide
to administer the necessary tests,
questions as quizzes
designed to trip me up,
...

Behind iron bars
I'm found contemptible.
Just one ugly man among many.
They pass the trays
...

When she reaches over infinity
stretching from behind
some uncharted geographical place,
her hands comfort offended
...

They referred to his 'pronounced dead' body
as his remains. These Neanderthals
were obviously unfamiliar with the english language;
they'd probably never learned to read or write
...

Their noses' flared nostrils
were stuck up
into the fluffed air; they were seeking
to breathe deeply
...

God, the tailor,
our providential robe maker
hjas taken our nakedness,
shame and guilt,
...

blinad as a bat by love I can't see
anyone else but her.
dark shadows manifest immaterial
and hide the moon,
...

Tonight the soft rain comes
and the wind slices whistling blind sounds
cutting a forlorn song's stanzas,
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I was famished,
that lean and hungry look,
but not of Cassius.
An obvious perishing
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By my nature
i am not a hunter.
hunting implies
that killing takes place.
...

I think I'm dying tonight,
but, of course, you'd say
I've always been dying.
But this time I say, 'Not like this.'
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There exists a peculiar fragrance
in forgiveness.
It defies the empirical finite, those smells
of sacrificial decomposing flesh, those subservient little lambs
...

Incarcerated thoughts are amputated dreams
dangling invisibly over the periphery.
They are phantom limbs
centrally stimulated by the mystery of memory.
...

Tomorrow, my yesterday,
a band of bibliophiles arrested me.
They threw me in a cell on a block
reserved for the sick.
...

He came out of the desert full of the night
and clad in the nebula of kings
over queens, a full house.
Oh yeah! That 's right, cowboy,
...

The wind
Comes with neither father nor mother.
It has no identifying birthmarks
Indicating no known origin.
...

In light of eternity,
that incomprehensible stretch
and impossible grasp,
life is short,
...

She awoke this morning
bright and glorious
and somehow beautifully curious
...

Eventually she burned them
from the inside out
roasting their vital organs
on a spit.
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Down on my knees
I attempt to get as low
as I can go.
This position, however,
...