The Sediment of Willful Sublimation

I excrete prose upon
defenceless students;
and post masticated poems
onto online notice boards
where they drip-drip-drip down the page
leaving slug-trail glazes.

In the morning I guard the jetty
where onomatopoeias crash against a shore
riddled with the bullet holes
of underachieving metaphor;
where adjectives carve a niche among the rocks
and slither into old tombs
from which they refuse to be drawn
into the scorching mosaic
of literary accomplishment.

'Glendalough'
3 ½" x 2 ½"
$25