An Abecedarius

Augury

All bets cancelled,

deriving, each,

from geometry. However, I jealously keep

long memories nearby.

Old pathways question returning signs.

Two under Virgo. Wait.

Examining yet. Zero.

Bosch

Adamite brother, Cathar, Dutch ensorceling fantasist?

Given his imagery—jarring, kooky, lushly maverick,

no one perspective’s quite right.  
Sees the underworld vividly
with extraordinary yellowtailed zeppelins.

Cabinet of Curiosities

A box containing delirium: Edward Fifth’s genitalia,

Hadrian’s incunabula, Jurassic kitsch, little

mermaid nails, one perfect quincunx, rare silver trident

uncovered via water,  Xenophorae, yellowed zoetropes.

Demonology

Atrocious Beezelbubian cabal dines eagerly,

flashing grins. Heartless innards juxtapose

kid-like manners. Not only perpetrating

queer rogueries—spoiling tea-time, using virgins,

wailing expletives—yellowish zits.

Extinct

Able-bodied cavemen, dodos eschewing flight,

giant, hardly indefatigable jujitsuing kraken,

lethal Medusa, necromancers, ouroboros,

pterodactyls.  Quaggas—rakishly striped. Thylacines.

Us? Verily we’ll expire. Yikes—zapped!

Fishwife

Argue. Bitch. Carp. Demean.

Erect far-fetched generalities. Hoist inane jeremiads.

Kick lighthearted moments, never offer praise.

Quote rotten sonnets; take upsetting vacations.

Wax xenophobic. Yell zealously.

Gorey

Attics beckoned Cuthbert. Dark, eerie, flamily gothic.

His inamorata Jacintha K. loved matadors.

Nightly Ouija-ing pleased Quigley: raising spirits

then undressing Vivian who excelled yearning, zoomorphing.

Hades

Ancient boatmaster Charon delivers each ferried ghost.

Hell inflicts justice: Karma lashes malefactors’ nine outrages.

Persephone— Queen reluctant—snared

there underground. Virtue will exile you zenithal.

Imago

All brides connote death—

every fantasy girl harbored

inside just kills lived memories.

Night opens, posing questions,

risks sentences that upend various

wisdoms, except your Zoroastrianism.

Jesters

Antic bozo capers, derides—

elementary fool goads highfalutin individuals.

Joker, Kalulu, Loki— monkey natures

oft prophetic quilting rebuses, sense.

Tricksters use vagarious wiles exploiting your zanyism.

Kali

Apoplectic, black-complected deity. Eccentric, freaky garlands—

heads! Intoxicater—jousts; kills like mother nature.

Outworn perspectives quashed. Radically, she torpedoes

unbalanced views, wages extreme yajna. Zowie.

Labyrinths

A Borgesian conceit delineating everyman’s fate.

Gods hover ineffectually.

Jesters, kings, laity, me—nobody’s outside. 

Pasiphae’s queer relation stalks there

until vanquisher wrestles,

extricating youth, zealously.

Mr. Rotten

Arch badass cockney. Dagger-eyed fiend.

God, how I junked K-Tel, Lennon, Meatloaf—

nobody outdid Pistols.  Quixotic rogue sang treasons,

unified vassals. Wunderkind— xanthous young zendik.

Nostrum

As burdens can decidedly erect

fistulas, goiters, heartache; I justifiably kiss

lovely men, never old philanderers, quisling

rats. Sweet tenderness, unless verboten, will

exercise your Zen.

Orgasm

A better climax doesn’t equal fine gentlemen.

Hardly. I jest killers love me nicer.

Onanism pacifies qualms. Ride snake tongues

until very weary. Extra yummy zings.

Pastoral

A bright cormorant dives. Each feather glistens.

Hillsides in juniper, kine. Leaves mantle

nearby oaks. Picture quietly roaming shepherds.

Thinking undermines vistas—woefully expecting you.

Zephyrs.

Quicksilver

Alchemical base. 

Cross-dressing element following from god Hermes.

It’s intelligence jumping, kindling, linking.  

Mercury nowadays: Oddball precessing planet.

Past: Quietly returning souls to the underworld,

valiant with willow-wand, exceptional extricater;

yield of Zeus.

Revenge

Augustus brought Caesar divinity, enraging

foes. Goodbye hateful ingrates. Julius’s kin

learned mercy next. Oh, perhaps quintessential ruler. 

Senatorial traitors unhinged. 

Very well. Excellence yields zest. 

Synchronicity

At bedtime Camilla doesn’t easily

forget. Gets heavily into Jungian knitting:

links meaningful nodes, observes patterns.

Questions reigning structures, tracks underground

visions. Whispers excitedly.

Yawns. Zzzs.

  

Temptress

Avenging beauty—cagey—demanding eccentric fealty.

“Get head—irritant John!”  King listens,

mesmerized. Nefariously organizes plan. Quite ruthless.

Salome’s talent: Undulating veils. Wily exotic yielding zounds.

Utopia

Allegory, beautifully conceived. Desired Eden

from grand humanist ideals. Jeepers, kinda’ lovely.

Means no (outright) place. Quixote’s Republic,

Shangrila. True Utopian vision would extinctify yowling zeks.

  

Von Teese

Artful burlesque coquette, doffing enchantress.

Fishnets, gloves, hemlines—incrementally jettisoned.

Killer legs, milky neck. Oneiric pin-up Queen—

resisting stripper tricks, using vaudeville wiles

exiting your zipper. 

Wolves

Agile beasts crave dastardly evisceration;

furred ghouls howl in jamboree.

Keening—lauds moon,

nimbly ousts prey.   

Quite regal, sympathetic together;

ululate vertebrate wanderers excite yarns zoological.

X-Files

Adumbrating boys chosen during eclipses:

Fred guffawed.  Henry ingested junk.

Kingsley listed. 

Michael needed ongoing pandemonium.

Quentin resented sex.

Terence—utterly vacant.

Werner exhumed. Yardley zithered.

Yesterday

As burdens concatenate, drive

each freighted gnash home, it

just kills Larissa—meaning, now’s

odious.  Past qualms remembered

seem trivial, unnerve view when

exposing yesteryear’s zinfandels.

Zodiac

Archers blurt.

Cancer domesticates.

Eager, fickle Gemini gabs.

Goats hoard.

Indecisive, jelly-kneed Librans lounge.

Leo’s magnanimous. 

Narcotics overpower Pisces.

Passionate, quick Rams.

Relentless Scorpio taxes.

Taurus understands vacations.

Virgos worry.

Water-bearers: exceptional yet zany.