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Michael Brandonisio
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What the Winter Brings

 

Michael Brandonisio

 

 

Disembodied dirge induces

apparition in a darkened alley.

 

Bones cringe and woo,

weeping thoughts of what was.

 

Listen here.

 

Chains rattle across the cement floor.

Voice of a familiar specter

beseeches to strangle

the unseen violinist

whose strings have gone mad.

 

 

Hardcore, Softcore

 

Michael Brandonisio

 

Take to byways

ambulate meat poems

work the pole

pleasure the pain, lyrical

sex heat.

Search for something

erased

inexplicable

mythic

and erotic.

In a playpen

shocked,

brain heals itself.

I said it.

I will say it again.

Nobody knows anything.

Roll the dice,

watch out for coyotes.

No more sweet sentiment.

Jizz spurts

from the big hard one,

a juicy peach.

 

 

 

 

Michael Brandonisio lives in Brooklyn, NY.  He started writing, poetry mostly, when he was sixteen.

He also takes abstract, lyrical, and cityscape photographs.  His poems have graced the pages of Monday Night, Slipstream and Thieves Jargon.  His photographs have appeared in the horror and fantasy webzine, Chimaera Serials (August 2006) and in print in Louis Liard.

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