Three poems by Connie Stadler

 writhe
 
    amethyst
                  drips
        
             wanting
 incantation
 
         incise
 
viscous
 
       longing
 
pearlescent
     scars
 
               speak
                     need
 
  
     we fall
 
 
carpeted
 
abyss
           thick
      with
               flies
 
                              this
 
 
darkness

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Lamentation: Keeper of the House
 
Black enamel marks
A tawdry indiscretion
Broil is not bake
In any clamored tongue
These sullen pans, the mark of char
Accosts my Wednesday reveries
Of domestic accountability
And blighted
A denuded shopping cart
Steals between gloating aisles
Stripping these coupons
Of measured worth
Indicting my sorrows
To brethren lives.
 
++++++++++++++++++++
 
myrrh
 
whither this
white
          sigh
 
cleaving
 
in
     the
 
          aperture
 
seething
unto
  
       god
 
          jesus
christ
abandons
    
    the
 
            common
 
lamb
 
        
             importunate
                   
              magdelena
 
undead
 
catacombs
 
             wanting
 
imprecations
 
 
     gospel
   illusions
 
 
       canti
-
cled
 
scream

Author bio:

Constance Stadler has published five chapbooks, most recently, Tinted Steam (Shadow Archer Press) and Sublunary Curse (Erbacce), a full manuscript, Paper Cuts (Calliope Nerve Media) and a collaborative book with Rich Follett, Responsorials (Neopoiesis Press). A new ebook, Rummaging in the Attic, is set for release (Differentia Press).