Kurt Philip Behm

Smokescreen

Science…

 bastard child

of philosophy

and reason

formulaic delinquent

of an answer

in flux

 Serving itself

as it shuns

its true

master

bowing down

to its

tenets

the truth

—undiscussed

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: April, 2021)

 

 

The Storm God Wakens

 

Clouds encircle

sage colored dreams,

ice crystals block the sky

 

Today in shadows,

yesterday’s warning,

 memories start to cry

 

The stratus thickens,

impending doom,

prophesy to remind

 

Aeolus has woken,

his rain of tears

—ablution most unkind

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)