Pompeii

Rock, Paper, Scissors
Designing Time series, 2012 ©Kalliope Amorphous

Pompeii

i keep falling in love with
lost cities shaped like women.
i keep waking up
in Pompeii,
(love begun as the decay of sentience
finds an end in sentient decay)

we love the daughters
of downed power lines
-they kiss like an electric fence
with the viscosity
of wine.

those lights ensconced in entropy
forged in the frame of our doors;
the lacework lattice of fossils
pressed into our attic floors

a pile of bone
and hell
and thought
-an exiled stone
some citadel forgot.
her morse code gaze,
her curse mode heart,
my home.

- ©Kalliope Amorphous

The Span Of Being

Fortitude And Flame, Body Language Series, 2013 ©Kalliope Amorphous

The Span Of Being

we concede to convex,
we recede to concave,
motionless frenzy envies decay,
sum of sun’s enervation and hex.

from the free form of disaster,
a single horn
formed from a crown of thorns
alive at dawn
in spite of her history of nights,
a black swan,
a heart of crimson clay
where sculpture pulse is born.
forged by fire, sired by form;
an epilogue of spire and storm.

you, ointment culled from
the patina of a lock,
rust and heart, beet red
- a chrism
milked from clocks.

me, an anxious could-be,
head to flaw
an ancient no-thing
stalled, in thaw.

we, the spun sprawl of hands upon
a numbered face
an illusion begun
through sum of pulse and pace,
an ancestry of carrion.

-©Kalliope Amorphous

On Earth Day: A Reminder From Those Who Knew.

The Count Of Los Feliz

Sleep, Self portrait from Untold Fairy Tales, 2012 ©Kalliope Amorphous

The Count Of Los Feliz

he called me stigmatador;
i was holding a court of blood
between my pause
and the pace of the floor.

a kiss bridged the difference between
molten lava and larval molting,
instar and in star.

he shuffled his cards
to my absent refrain;
my husk of hearts,
my ace of veins.

-and the sculpture carved
by the knife of his pulse
will starve the vultures who stir
by my sepulchre
waiting for life to convulse.

-©Kalliope Amorphous

Mid Century Owl Martini Shaker

I found this incredibly rare Mid Century martini shaker at an auction in West Hollywood earlier this week.

$225

It just went up in my shop here!

Update: Sold! (that was fast).