Constance Stadler



...To Catullus, Caterwauls, Clare de Lune, Crème de menthe...

.........................................................................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.