#archonofdarkness

[shamanfox]

i remember you

as if syntax itself lit a cigarette and leaned against the moon,

dripping neon from its split lip—

you,

always arriving mid-metaphor,

half-naked in verbs,

fully clothed in cosmic sin.

you wrote like your blood had teeth.

like your breath translated pornography

into prophecy.

her lips,

her thighs—

you made them sanctuaries of syllables,

hymns on heatwave parchment.

you chased language down alleyways,

pinning it like a lover

in velvet dusk.

facebook was your confessional.

tumblr, your haunted chapel.

your gospel bled hashtags and heartbeats,

your god wore stilettos

and wept mercury.

meanwhile—

you,

sipping from the wound,

waiting for the coffin to close

as if it too were

a poem you hadn’t

finished editing.

and i,

still holding the spark you threw,

write this

not as elegy—

but as ignition.

you weren’t made to be buried.

you were meant

to be read aloud

during a lightning storm

by a naked priestess

with a megaphone

and mascara

running down her

soul.

[the-inside-story-in-33]

The Inside Story with archonofdarkness

Sonata

1) Name - Dominic DiCarlo

2) Age - ad infinitum ….

3) blog title/website - @archonofdarkness

4) Where you live - British Columbia (Canada)

5) Where you grew up - Montreal

6) Schooling - More than enough

7) What do you do for a living –I teach college.

8) Any mentors that have helped you  - No.

9) When you began writing – 2012 on Tumblr.

Adagio

10) Fav time of day - Evening – that’s when creativity begins.

11) Fav tree – none.

12)  Fav prose writer(s)-  Herman Melville, Emily Bronte, Franz Kafka … too many to list.

13) Fav poet(s) -Allen Ginsberg, Mina Loy, Wallace Stevens, Denise Leverton, Adeena Karasick … too many to list.

14) Fav quote – too many to track down but most would be from C.G. Jung.

15) Currently reading - Charles Altieri, Wallace Stevens and the Demands of Modernity, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013).

16) Want to read - I don’t have a specific goal but I read an awful lot.

17) Biggest literary pet peeve – when a publisher charges “x” amount of dollars for a book of poetry and most of the poems are very short.

18) Biggest literary turn on-  Strange imagery or narrative.

Minuet

19) From idea to completion, what is your process? - Usually an infrequently used word becomes the trigger to get me going and then the poem takes a life of its own; at the end I’ll twist it into a specific narrative; or, I’ll try to throw a clever punch line to end it.

20) Where do you write? I write at my desk where I have a desktop computer.

21) In what medium (notebook paper, computer, phone)? I write everything straight onto the computer using “Pages” (Apple word processor). I never write using pen or pencil, always on the computer.

22) How long do you usually spend on a piece? Twenty minutes, an hour at the most.

23) Do you go back and re-work? Very rarely; I usually finish the piece and what you see is what you get.  I rather do the whole thing in one shot than keep going back to it. Sometimes the next day I’ll finish it off (changing a word, or formatting) if I need to.

24) Have you/will you publish? Yes

25) What is your biggest challenge with writing? Finding the time to do it; most of the time I write late at night. There are too many things going on in my life to write any other time.

26) Do you have particular goals? No.

27) Other outlets (creative, physical, leisure, etc.) Music.

Rondo

28) What is one thing you would like to have people remember you by? - Nothing in particular. I try not to cultivate some “brand” that I can sell. Haha.

29) What would you like to know about other writers? - How they write – the technical aspect of it.

30) Coffee or Tea?-  Coffee.

31) One quirk/talent you can share- Other than play guitar really well, I have no talents.

32) Present state of mind – up & up.

33) Where we can find your work  - dominicdicarlopoetry - also, Dominic DiCarlo google - was featured as poet of the month in this issue & has 8 poems of mine (pp. 21-29), RCLAS Wordplay at Work, two poems appeared in this book Writing Night Book anthology, also my book Cycles of an Inflamed Mysticism and a few other places have my poems.

[writteninjoy2]

but i cracked my dear soul … inside her savannah inside her creaturely love inside her fingered texture inside her resurrected flower … and fragments of me flutter inside

archonofdarkness

[thephilosophersotherstone]

street lamp lovers embracing the night

twisting shades of hearts flinging themselves into oblivious embraces

celebrating trances in the unlit hours where passion prevails

scaling the ladders of predetermined mutuality

all to forgive and forget what might have been but the day did not see

inspired by Dominic archonofdarkness's great poem

[karmamax]

Today is archonofdarkness day, here at karmamax. Tomorrow will be luciblackanima day.

[karmamax]

Today is wordrummager day, here at karmamax. Tomorrow will be archonofdarkness day.

[lebuc]

warp together into the void

( by demand - this repost from a year ago...) * let’s get these clouds shunted aside to allow a crystal-clear cranial tweet,  i’ve got a date with my tumblng mates  clear through the ether to the cosmic seat; astral agent le buc requesting clearance for flight. there's a spot i’ve scouted out in galaxy mu  with a solar still out back - but still in plain view they say it churns out elixir, bout 205 proof advanced tech’ll do that & we'll raise the roof   here in the post WWIII reformation  of my fav’d city-sector Chica-gonica, smack dab in the middle of old U S of Asia;  personal crafts and launchpods are really a snap - i can leave from my own back yard if i wish, to soar and navigate using a visor-grid map; i'm looking forward to this here rendevous since my transmogrification eons ago - into a biopoetric homainoid, real heart's still inside;  who knew what Quantallicatech Corp. could do? i reminisce on those old pre-war times, the limes, the dimes, ahh, the thought-crimes; v-knapsack packed with old reblogs, likes & notes, just to let em know how this brother rides & totes check: * my first kick dug & first one vibed on - by a voice from on high, from king stimie’s throne * fella chi’er, biker, musical luvr of ale - judyschu’s do fit - wear em or fail * foxy shamanfox sharing celestial succor and sass * and astral amplifications from archonof( anything but )darkness * she sees, she says, she shares: sun seer tansheer * meaty poems that stick, to/from bluesandbarebones * balanbaalis, beaming beautitude, boyyy - * riotous rosieoerin - rawrr back at you, boo * (un) en (ding) cache (t) - she’s definitely got it  *  i’m one who certainly needs her entrancing transitions * dj no-delusons916 - daring me not to dance and dig it  * onthefritz007 - big time misnomer - her words r nevr brokn * aweluey’s a sista spirit sprite - well then, all right! * mattitsmith: madmen muses who don’t mince * that s-emi-colon should be an exclamation point!  * jayararr, though rare, is darn-near every wharr * ink’s not frozen, never dozin, slinger of a dozen (12), cousin  * bipolarbacon's tasty whether up or down  * mikefrawly mikefrawly, always in fine form, shawly  * she's writingforyourlove, e(h)?  - and mine, too! * charleyfosters hope & support with a sublime finesse   * nothing obscure here, so who needs explanations? * i’m never one to stray from grand notions  * always wished to matriculate at a hipp o(er) c(h)ampus * grow more mo fo fruit from your moforoot * friendlyblackguy, whose beauty’s more than skin deep * soul-in-division, our greatest common denominator * aquietjoy is just that, and that’s what she spreads * lunarhowling at the moon, just may inherit rowling's silver spoon   * pandascanwrite, and seldom fails to delight * there was once a purplemonkeysexgod69,     enamored with tumescence - his, hers and mine…  * steffenrmitchell’s house of poom, the grandest character in the room * mslabyrinth - muse of amaz(e)ing prose prowess & prurience * never ordinary & full of wonder(ous) thunder * love3amore: impossible to love2much  * lusty laughter and luxe, ladyfunnybones - lotta luv * maza-dohta & nayyirah waheed, dynamic duo, serenly sowing soul-seed * thephilosophersotherstone leaves no phrase unturned * lrtr - however translated, never at a loss for the elegant word * reading whisperedverse, whose words speak volumes... whew, i guess my v-sack’s all packed; (i’m sure in there, there’s some people it lacks) see you all next at century’s turn i’m leaving you all holo’s and bitcoin to burn; can hardly wait until i finally arrive,  'midst kisses, hugs, love taps and high fives we’ll be working on that solar tap for real laughing and joking before the reveal reacquainting in that pub’d out, shining still-craft wondering who else is punk’d out and who else is still daft whatever the what, we’ll be overjoyed as we all warp together, into the void… (with love) * (tag overflow: steffenmitchell, mslabyrinth, ordinarywonder, love3amore, ladyfunnybones, maza-dohta, nayyirah waheed, lrtr, thephilosophersotherstone, whisperedverse, howitzerliterarysociety)

[archonofdarkness]

infinities of you and me

everything is a fleeting moment wrapped in quantum spaces triggering dancing rituals of energized chaos into aggregates of velocities flying in & out of … infinities … we are coalescing within one twinkling spark of disarray … unfolding perceptions before our ambrosial soul-eyes, (bodies joined as sensory minions vacated within pace too frenzied for fleshy margins) as time sublimates into a gasp of laughing gas we are the crowns of meta-creation in performance art doodling illusions to filter out the blazing divine light from blinding us into enlightenment … we conceive visions rising and vaporizing to nihility, tracing opus to obliteration, melodic dream portraits of cosmogonal elucidation blazing into entropy beckoning from the abyss sooner or later the veil will fall … and you and i will fall into each other … into our infinities … beyond appearances … Note: This is a collaboration between Dominic (archonofdarkness -regular fonts) and Christiane (mermaidsbite - italics)