Bradley Mason Hamlin
photo by Lucy Hell

HE MAKES ME FEEL IT SHE SAID

Miles Davis
blows slow
sharp
sure
mysterious
fast
blue
backwards
into curved futures
of shadows
of smoke
and makes my woman
want to fuck
buck wild.

VODKA WITH GRAPE PEDIALYTE

Eating my
“Dynamite Hot” chili
in a Hello Kitty bowl
with 5 children
you take what you can get
sometimes
I drink my vodka with grape
Pedialyte
and accidentally discovered
the secret
of no hangovers …
there is a balance to this world
as seemingly fragile as
a spider’s web
and sometimes
just as strong.

WEREWOLF ALCHEMY

cutting
words
into paper
like
a lumberjack
whacking
tree
trunk

we
owe it all
to the
Samurai forest
patient
& quiet
waiting
to
become
baseball bats
and wood
for the burning

the
saddest truth
death
and chaos
open
all the doors

the war
in Vietnam
gave
access to
more quality art
than
any other time
in
American
history

perhaps
I need to
tie the bones
to my head
tonight
go a-huntin’
give light
to
another homerun

crack,
whack,
another
tree
falling
cut, sliced,
pulped into paper
for the
werewolf alchemy

the saints
of
trees screaming
when the
art
goes
soft

the dark
and sinister
mud roots
ready
to release
original
magick virus

the ancient
tribunal
of branches
ready
to strike back
at
humankind
kill ‘em gone
naturally
murdered

the earth shaking
the pest of people
off its skin
like a
bad case of lice

unless you
we
I
have
something to offer
back
for all the
sorrow …
some
thing
to
balance the tide

as the
ax man strikes
as the
sober aliens
watch & wait
& wonder
via
television
& computer screens
as the
volcanoes bubble
& lighting
flashes
our
final
warning

the lizard gods
of creation
laugh
from the loony bin …

and
we
will
be judged.



Bradley Mason Hamlin was born and raised in Los Angeles, educated at the University of California at Davis, and currently lives in Sacramento with his beautiful wife and crazy children. His short stories, articles, and poems have appeared in several small press books, magazines, and literary journals in print and on line. Hamlin created Mystery Island Publications and writes the Secret Society series: Intoxicated Detective. For more information about Hamlin and other wild things—visit: www.mysteryisland.net

Last update : 01-11-2007 07:33

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