Lancelot Schaubert's Blog, page 105
July 22, 2019
In the Junk Shop
Malcolm Glass over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Filed in this black box of smoky negatives, parents, children, grandparents,aunts and uncles all gussiedup for Easter, the wornporch steps and sagging,moldy gutters behind them. And the toothy birthday girl, the erstwhile boyfriends in bow ties, the fresh shine of a large-mouthed bass, Christmas smiles set glowing by bubble lights. And I am the one […]
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July 21, 2019
REFORGED MATRIMONY
James Ph. Kotsybar over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
After his divorce from Aphrodite,Hephaestus, lame god of the forge,re-wed Aglaea, goddess of beauty.She was the youngest of the Three Graces,and it was her job to attend to Aphrodite. Conspicuous in garment of the groom,Hephaestus paces the halls, limping.Aglaea, gargling in the bathroom,will take several more hours primping.Heph slaved at his forge so she’d be […]
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July 20, 2019
The Empties and the Infinites
Annelise Tate over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
There are those who carry worlds within, walking obituaries,unable to place,unable to recollect,names which might codicil reason.Their aversions and tendenciesall cross-haired into a mad conglomerate,at sixes and sevens, they wander.Arms splayed,to catch walls and deflect voices,screaming reminders of who they were,before they left,before they leapt,God said they wouldn’t make it into heaven.And there are those,stein-eyed […]
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July 19, 2019
sorry
Helena Pantsis over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
i just wanted to say sorry,for kicking the legs on your chairout from under youwhen you were sitting down for dinner, for holding the pillow down on your facewhen you lay in bed to sleep. i hope you don’t mind my apologizing,for cutting the cold water in your showerin the hopes that you might burn […]
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July 18, 2019
A Good Night to Hunt
Penny Sebring over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
(The Cliffs of Bamiyan, 2228 A.D.) Musa shielded his eyes from the light of the slowly setting sun, scanning the skies for the falcons that hunted overhead. Two or three still wheeled lazily, high up in the sky, but they would be settling in to roost soon. He adjusted the leather satchel that he carried […]
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July 16, 2019
Harvest
Pauletta Burgeis over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
The thin man in an ill-fitting, ragged black suit arrived silently by nightwith an entourage beyond sight. At high noon the next day, out on the edge of town, just beyond where First Street veers into Old Highway and disappears to places no one has ever been, the man and his Church of Truth’sTraveling Gospel […]
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July 15, 2019
The Weight of Pine Trees
maalika jacobs over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
It doesn’t take long for his brother to die. There’s nothing particularly dramatic about it either- a cough coloured red, a shudder and an endless quiet as pale as the snow that falls on us. I’ve seen it all before. The tang of death doesn’t hold the same metallic heaviness it used to. I suppose […]
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July 13, 2019
Insomnia
Annelise Tate over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Pre-dawn pink,eyelids like anvils,in Autumn. Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you write poetry like “Insomnia,” CLICK HERE.
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July 12, 2019
Black Sonnet: The Great He-Goat
Logan Davis over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
On Francisco Goya’s painting of the same name. He half-faced me, one square eye on the crowdOf mourners, one fastening me. He claimed,Pain is the elixir of eternity.So paint your features black, shriek out the soundOf widow wails who clave until fate claveAway, waft the rot of society,That smell of burning waste, lick the groundWhose […]
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July 11, 2019
Black Sonnet: Judith and Holofernes
Logan Davis over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
On Francisco Goya’s painting of the same name. And, merit fate, the wine had overflownHolofernes’ wrath; Judith’s blade shoneAs, to the nurse, she confided her plan: I’ll slay this man by beheading him twiceIf you’ll watch the door. She leveled the knifeTo equal her own head, and entered: War,Who played your whore, might have stayed […]
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