henry 7. reneau, jr.
Patti Smith
You a wonder / every inch the glam gothic crow / You a granted
clear explosive magic of empathic intelligence / the dauntless
[w]reckoning of your weight / like a quantum singularity of Furies
wreathed in the eccentricities of genius / You an unfettered energy /
ever ready to make a big noise / You got a geography of your own
/ strangely magical & [w]reckless / The fearful / galvanized by
your songs / re-inscribes people and your experiences into the world /
You a brazen indecency of sound / three chords merged with
the power of the Word / The crowd knows every word / the throb &
burn of aperture & rift / of raped over centuries / into existence / You
a city of Women who roar / when the wolves come out to play / The gun-
metal disdain of despots & hoarders of gain / of gatekeepers & too
many dicks / Their altar / a pedestaled cage / the sacred chalice full of
rotten Christian teeth / You are rain-pearled / Sun-filled / a condensation
of cloud pulled downward by gravity / spiraling to the center
of something spinning denser than / larger than / older than a fetish
of radiant tragedies dressed in collateral adjectives / You the melting away
of arrogance / a corner of sunlight on the bed sheet erasing a violence /
that many is the person / who never had the courage to do something
/ say something / be / something / the milli-second gap in time /
it takes the fire to follow the fuse / from the detonator / to kaboom!!
You a wonder / every inch the glam gothic crow / You a granted
clear explosive magic of empathic intelligence / the dauntless
[w]reckoning of your weight / like a quantum singularity of Furies
wreathed in the eccentricities of genius / You an unfettered energy /
ever ready to make a big noise / You got a geography of your own
/ strangely magical & [w]reckless / The fearful / galvanized by
your songs / re-inscribes people and your experiences into the world /
You a brazen indecency of sound / three chords merged with
the power of the Word / The crowd knows every word / the throb &
burn of aperture & rift / of raped over centuries / into existence / You
a city of Women who roar / when the wolves come out to play / The gun-
metal disdain of despots & hoarders of gain / of gatekeepers & too
many dicks / Their altar / a pedestaled cage / the sacred chalice full of
rotten Christian teeth / You are rain-pearled / Sun-filled / a condensation
of cloud pulled downward by gravity / spiraling to the center
of something spinning denser than / larger than / older than a fetish
of radiant tragedies dressed in collateral adjectives / You the melting away
of arrogance / a corner of sunlight on the bed sheet erasing a violence /
that many is the person / who never had the courage to do something
/ say something / be / something / the milli-second gap in time /
it takes the fire to follow the fuse / from the detonator / to kaboom!!
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henry 7. reneau, jr. writes words of conflagration to awaken the world ablaze, an inferno of free verse illuminated by his affinity for disobedience & a barbwire conviction that prequels the spontaneous combustion that blazes from his heart, phoenix-fluxed red & gold, like a discharged bullet that commits a felony every day, exploding through change is gonna come to implement the fire next time. He is the author of the poetry collection, freedomland blues (Transcendent Zero Press) and the e-chapbook, physiography of the fittest (Kind of a Hurricane Press.) His work is published in Superstition Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Zone 3; Poets Reading the News and Rigorous. His work has also been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
henry 7. reneau, jr. writes words of conflagration to awaken the world ablaze, an inferno of free verse illuminated by his affinity for disobedience & a barbwire conviction that prequels the spontaneous combustion that blazes from his heart, phoenix-fluxed red & gold, like a discharged bullet that commits a felony every day, exploding through change is gonna come to implement the fire next time. He is the author of the poetry collection, freedomland blues (Transcendent Zero Press) and the e-chapbook, physiography of the fittest (Kind of a Hurricane Press.) His work is published in Superstition Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Zone 3; Poets Reading the News and Rigorous. His work has also been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.