Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry and fiction can be found. His chapbook “Songs of A Dissident” will be released in January of 2016 through Transcendent Zero Press, and his words have appeared recently in venues such as Words Surfacing, Fauna Quarterly, Profiles in Poetry, and Dissident Voice.
Selah,
Scott Thomas Outlar
Up and Down
Silver lace
silk stockings
hang from a
blood red moon,
dripping honey sweet nectar
through a melted liquid sky
with Zelaznian colors
splashing neon
upon the blank
black
canvass of space
Far out, man…
sounds real trippy –
Don’t mind me
but now I’m itching
to smoke the sound
of entropy’s song
and steel raw nerves
as the music speaks
with waves of adrenaline
through crashing veins
The haunting wails
from the hunting grounds
moan in broken violence
weeping against the changing
tide of light
Chasing the dragon
down rabbit holes
to hit the high note
with a fever pitch
pulling no punches
while flipping the switch
as electric neuron symphony
ignites to explode
with a velvet atomic rose
The orchestra is a butterfly magnet
bleeding through the veil
between vibrations
Chasing the frequency
Chasing the antidote
Chasing the remedy
Chasing the wicked truth
as a dagger
to the side
of the soul
letting out a final sigh
as the heavens collapse
Be not afraid
for the angels
cast out
with clipped wings
of fractured fear
for they have
nine lives
and always seem
to land
so softly
in the
fall
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