Paul Shannon : Writing

A Brute of Taste

A Brute of Taste

A Poem by Paul Shannon


You are the grapevine and I am the shear The oak barrels shipped in from France are near Standing in dazzling display
The Happy Docile Dead

The Happy Docile Dead

A Poem by Paul Shannon


From up here on the port side viewYour villages seen from vantages newOf frivolous individuals bornTo graves at which their dreams are tornA marvelous..
Stinger

Stinger

A Poem by Paul Shannon


Underneath the earthWaiting thereTrigger pointHidden lairLand mineWhere their men may strideHymenopteraOn the routeRelocateSchooled to bootIn lineWash..
Orchids

Orchids

A Poem by Paul Shannon


Stirred no more by painter’s shifty brushIt is not with the paints as it isWith the slushBlended carnaria by ironshod ladleAbandoned Infant Sorr..
The Pharmaceutical Sesquipedalian Procedure

The Pharmaceutical Sesquipedalian Procedure

A Poem by Paul Shannon


My dear, for you my scalpel sings It pays to irrigate The ear, open the floodgates For that which I have rendered numb Every part, plane, and po..
Lipocanus Rex

Lipocanus Rex

A Poem by Paul Shannon


Perspiring along ceramic like a sweet morning dew Perfidious desires for one so delectable as you At the tip of the knife where the sunlight refl..
64 dB of Gastric Ruin

64 dB of Gastric Ruin

A Poem by Paul Shannon


Lackadasical bovinary cooking coddle A ransacking of the olfactory cavities Euthanized Cauterized An oilseed dish pulverized and granulized Heter..
Cryptid

Cryptid

A Poem by Paul Shannon


A grandiosemythological hominidWho stands at pointed-eared attention?Who rocks the sleeping baby's cradleWhen the term "cryptid" is mentioned?The expe..
Petrarchan sonnet

Petrarchan sonnet

A Poem by Paul Shannon


Wordsworth! Instill in me your Holy powerHumanities have need of me - now and againIn small bouts of random dharmic zenThey sweeten up a consomme left..
The Bleeder's Bib

The Bleeder's Bib

A Poem by Paul Shannon


Composite molded frontal cutterLaser sighted microwave emitterSerrated linear tendon grinderLatex mounted pressurizerInvasive buccal space throat cult..