.........................................................................and black Absynthe.
Cambrian Colloquies
The eternal struggle
Embryo and fossil
The wind blows
I am uninhabited.
Man without name
You disdain my disdain?
You want us to be together.
Your words drop as seedpods
Damned to infertile drift
On yellowed tufted grass.
I want to see you naked.
I want to see your skin,
Magpie colored.
I want to etch you in words
Of beautiful banality.
But I utter
The gutturals of cannibals.
I have long derided
Translucid logic and
All its defamations.
Depart forever from me
As the ghost crab eludes
At twilight.
The embryo
oozes.
The fossil is
dead
weight.
Neither cohabitants
Nor carnage.
Constance Stadler has been writing, publishing, and editing poetry from the ‘prehistoric’ epoch of print journals to modern e-times. She was a former editor of South and West and is currently a contributing editor to the e-zine Eviscerator Heaven and Review Editor for Calliope Nerve. She has published over 300 poems and three chapbooks in her ‘first manifestation’ as a poet, and has just released her first two chaps in 20 years, Tinted Steam (Shadow Archer Press) Sublunary Curse (Erbacce) and an eBook, Paper Cuts (Calliope Nerve Media).
Her most recent work appears in such 'zines as BlazeVox, ditch, ken*again, Pen Himalaya, Rain Over Bouville, Clockwise Cat, Unlikely Stories 2.0, Hanging Moss, Neonbeam, and Gloom Cupboard. Recently, she has been ‘Featured Poet’ for the Guild of Outsider Writers, Counterexample Poetics and The Poetry Warrior.
