Author: ellery twining

  • Grand Cross

    GRAND CROSS

    each careful crevice
    is a calculated burden
    the exaltation of the sudden
    the acclaim of the other

    each luminous caress
    is a courtesy
    an accomplishment all it’s own

    ideas desire to coalesce around
    our better precedence
    like a new moon in aries
    the previous distance from decadence

    the date on the calendar has passed,
    is always passing
    a reflective juncture which demands
    one choice between two worlds
    the ignition of intuition
    gains measure in the ensuing reveal

  • Exit Strategy

    EXIT STRATEGY

    the door closes quickly
    as a loud commotion
    commences
    there are still roads to traverse

    it’s an exit strategy
    the appeal of inner calculation-
    your garbled gable senses
    an advantage without a reverse

    consent, complicating the totality
    of our image- an irreversible reclamation.
    this implied construct of allowence’s
    deception could not erase the curse.

    the archive of our functional commonality
    dissipates in a hissing enunciation,
    a sacrificial dissolution of the harnesses
    that tethered every verse

    this vapor of vacant tonality
    delineates the idea of qualification
    a predetermined absence of consequence
    with lips coiled tight in a concealed purse

  • a trail divides us

    from the upcoming book "owners manual to modern cartography"
    from the upcoming book “owners manual to modern cartography”
  • “Untitled” spawns new writing

    TELETHON DAY

     

    when I was ten years old

    i had the opportunity to be on TV.

    a speciality- my fifteen minutes of fame.

    even as I had no idea who andy warhol was,

     

    my appearance was paramount. I chose an un- folded

    flannel shirt and my aerosmith belt buckle- to be seen

    as if I belonged in the frame,

    and not just another image for the television’s buzz.

     

    his acceptance was astonishing. he would be told

    there was only research and no cure. this path

    would be the risk of treatment- the same

    moment countless others faced had became ours.

     

    while painting the house during the summer before,

    he said he  would not be sold

    on the science of folklore.

    the telethon is being broadcast on the radio today-

    they are raising money