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"Nero, famous for fiddling while Rome burned, plays heavy metal on a lyre crossed with a rocker’s axe."

CARILLON TOWERS

Oil-strewn coral,
slow carol trine.
Rat loin escrow,
allot iron screw;

nor will coaster
allow nicer sort.
Scowl in art lore.
Let iron scar low.

Worn solacer lit,
we scroll-ration;
crawl into roles.
O winter collars!

Sorrow, lilac net
no car lilt worse...
raw silent color.
Worst cell: no air.

Tell Orion's craw
creator ill now;
slow iron cartel.
Rote lion scrawl.

Clean-lit sorrow
lest narrow coil...
Twill scone roar.
Coil-strewn coral.

(1994)

An English translation of Thyestes.

The Pleistocene is empty.
All the dire wolves are here.

The Only Possible Poems. (via @joriegraham.bsky.social)