Jul 28, 2018 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Multi-Syllabic Rhyme, Pentameter, Prophets
It’s told that Socrates chose the hemlock over this greater terror: banishment. But tortured Jonah, standing on the dock the hour he spied the boat to Tarshish went in secret to the furthest corner of the earth to hide his hate beneath a Spanish tent. He refused...
Jan 24, 2016 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Prophets, Sonnet, The Unspeakable Name vol. 2, Victorian Sonnet
What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; -The Prophet Joel We’ve eaten all the corn we’d saved for seed and there are no animals left to bleed upon our stone altars trying to appease the storm gods or whoever’s there to...
