31 Aug Rose Knapp
LOTUS FERVOR
Some psychedelics
Unfortunately require
A Civilised touché
At times of untimely
Intimidation press
Pronoia & paranoia
Blazed lips of death
Voices echo etched
In their own reflection
Too little and you’re
Stuck in swarming
Aristotelian static
Statuesque Crowds
Immortals without
Identity or even
Mosques of masks
Hijabs fade off faces
Knives slide silently
Into the side of
White demons
And by the time
Alexander has one
Adversus Visigoths
Too much machismo
Conquered crushed
Catatonic crusades
Straight lines turn
India he dies and
The Eastern silk
Devours itself
All roads lead
To Helios
Roses burn
Silver glints
Slices smoke
Into projections
Some call history
KALĀM KOSMOLOGICA
Shadows of stars
Tearing themselves
Flittering over this
Wasteland Cantos
de chœur Enfant
Fountain heads
terrible splendour
Millions of millennia
Darts down into
Skyscrapers
Steels its art
And artificial
Insanity back
Laughing as
It powders
Stardust
Onto our chic
Slits into vains
Nirvanic Nihilio
Jaded Genesis
Rose Knapp is a poet and producer. She has publications in Lotus-Eater, Bombay Gin, BlazeVOX, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, and others. She has a chapbook with Hesterglock Press and a forthcoming collection with Dostoyevsky Wannabe. She lives in Los Angeles. Her work can be found at roseknapp.net.
