Sunday, April 24, 2016

Consumption

By: Yezekiel Williams

We're taking shots until
we die, but I was sure 
the smoke would kill
us, and if not blackened, bloody
lungs of a common elitist
illness.
We're slowly losing our
minds, and the suffering
will incessantly leave 
us, wanting demise, recovering our
brothers' remnants from the hopper’s
crevices.
The best sleep of 
our lives, on the perturbed
soil of land mines, divided 
we die, but surely the
mosquitoes won't starve
tonight.

We ascend by the
tens, but the war is 
not dead, whose spoils are 
spoiled, only Cerberus
fed.
Death to martyr death, each
of our cries are the same
scream, digging canals with
silver-like spoons, as if to
channel the Red Sea.
Two more generations lost
in a drunken haze, remediating
our losses by signing their names, the
deep pocketed, cozied up by
Ceres’ flames.
Those of us who escape their 
spoons are left to play
their wicked games.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Frozen Oblivion

By: Yezekiel Williams

A subzero winter
          with no snow
          bleached birds trace
             halos over my head,
          replacing the cotton of
             the cerulean sky.

The wind has already

          beckoned you to flee,
          I lie awake, pale and
             paralyzed in a culvert,
          so glacial and slow moving,
             preserving my nerves.

A golden globe in the

          flock smears away,
          cygnets on the ground with
             feathers falling slowly after,
          drifting gently down the
             stream, pitiful company.

Life was once a

          beautiful dream...

Why am I so cold?