Ponderable polemics, poetic

WordPress site of poet Mark Lucker

January 2017

  • Gnosis laid bare

    The tone of your discourse public, private, anonymous shrill, accusatory non-sequiturs blending reality, perception, personality seamless, misguided pastiche grounded in your justified fear of being wrong fear of not being right fear of differences fear of those similar, but who say unfamiliar things unbecoming via people that look, seem like you, aren’t at all, after… Read more

  • Chalk it up to…

    Late afternoon, dingy neighborhood dollar store picking up essentials: cleaning supplies, deodorant AA batteries Wile E. Coyote dynamite-sized sidewalk chalk in handy plastic bucket at checkout, mentally rough-drafting scratchy paeans to my wife colorful notes she will see as she departs each day down front steps, sidewalk dusty romance specific, uplifting, sometimes sexy sendoffs I,… Read more

  • D.N. A-OK

    Laboratory confirmation my dueling personas, seafaring-Norse explorers daring warriors, plunderers adventure-seekers fused with diaspora refugees tenacious, plundered, wary ‘chosen ones’ genetic certainty elucidates innate predilections to roam with jaunty impunity revel in ambiguities my explorer’s eye for risk-taking tempered by well-honed wry skepticism of faith, clashing with exploits sans piety, blithely eschewing atonement disparate impulses enjoined;… Read more