Aprilia Zank shoots

Aprilia Zank shoots

Aprilia Zank shoots

Aprilia Zank writes

the Shadow

you walk in zigzag

to delude the fiend

take her by the hand

and go to the oracle

 

coin inserted

you wait

for the blue letters

to spit the ends

of your days

but the offering is deleted

and the message blank

under dimming light

the dusk wanes

into street folds

enter the Shadow

with its black collar

and the contract

in the briefcase

you gasp for the password

rip it in the irrevocable

third try

on the other side

the neon cross flickers

asymmetrically

due to burnt out tubes

Painting --  Willem de Kooning

Aprilia Zank shoots

Aprilia Zank writes

twilight

walking around the lake

brooding on yellow lilies

a sense of solitude

drips on algae-coated

obsolete nymphs

behind wire fences

the sun fades away

trickles down

light dissipates

like burning silk

I call a name –

in a void of answers

birds flutter away

hurry

to precarious shelters

Landscape at Twilight -- Uri Kochba (Walter Koch)

Aprilia Zank shoots

Aprilia Zank shoots

Aprilia Zank writes

slow motion

heading for the blue pill

hints of fresh stamina

denial of the coup de grâce

the solace of rhetoric

void dreams

of instant blading

green gooey viscera

emerging to dessicate

turn the other cheek

they said

flashes weave nimbus

in the darkness

of the cellar

agonises the beast

beauty is innocent

glistens in shades of blue

death in slow motion

in a net of silvery lace

Priapus, Casa dei Vettii, Pompei