Mocking echoes still poke and pierce my fragile brittle veneer once again draining my fading inner halo as I foolishly drown in my regrets for letting you go
like fingers into ribs, your jabs as if could reach my heart armor-less since day we met permitting fist and fury in allowing wings relax, an angel sunken in a loving sea til swam away as flooded under rue and smother same
Oh Icarus, how I long to briefly touch your flame to know your foolish pain immortalized in legendary demise as you tumble away from me, leaving me in utter choking misery —
touch as torch when dry from drowning water warm replaced by wax where feathers kindle, flicker, flash from sun and stare to face found melting ache as pinions plummet, fall plucked by he who holds them tight are in his throat as breathes my leaving no one left unscathed
Yet my scarred memories throb and burst in an avalanche of love thirst my parched essence slowly weakening as your comet glow fades, rapidly sucking my yearning —
again as slipping, sinking nether now volcano, lava burns erupting from as flung from fling enervating flight of tail of fireball and falling star that come apart when lure remains the hook of thirst as trap or trick is taking bait as craving dies
Leaving only charred desires in a mélange of raptured patchwork blinding fractured crumbling desires —
left with blanket, quilt of many pieces of a shattered life smoldered seams and stitching loose –
I lay in bed alone_
© Johnny Francis Wolf
© Don Beukes
Who is Don Beukes?
Don Beukes is a British and EU Poet and writer, originally from Cape Town, South Africa. He is a Poetry Chapbook Reviewer at The Poetry Café. He has written Ekphrastic Poetry since 2015 collaborating with artists internationally. He is the author of ‘The Salamander Chronicles’, ‘Icarus Rising-Volume 1’ (ABP), an Ekphrastic collection ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’ (Concrete Mist Press), ‘In Pursuit of Poetic Perfection (eBook) and ‘The Girl in the Stone’ (Impspired Publishing). He taught English and Geography in both South Africa and the UK. His poetry has been anthologized in numerous collections and translated into Afrikaans, Persian, French, Kreole (Mauritius) and Albanian. He was nominated by Roxana Nastase, editor of Scarlet Leaf Review for the ‘Best of the Net’ in 2017 as well as the Pushcart Poetry Prize (USA) in 2016. He was published in his first SA Anthology ‘In Pursuit of Poetic Perfection’ in 2018 (eBook) (Libbo Publishers) and his second, ‘Cape Sounds’ in 2019 (Gavin Joachims Publishing Cape Town). He is also an amateur photographer and his debut Photographic publication appeared in Spirit Fire Review in June 2019.
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Who is Johnny Francis Wolf?
Johnny Francis Wolf is an Autist — an autistic Artist. Designer, Model, Actor, Writer, and Hustler — Yes. That.
Worth a mention — his Acting obelisk — starring in the ill–famed and fated, 2006 indie film, TWO FRONT TEETH. The fact that it is free to watch on YouTube might say an awful lot about its standing with the Academy.
Homeless for the better part of these past 8 years, he surfs friends’ couches, shares the offered bed, relies on the kindness of strangers — paying when can, doing what will, performing odd jobs. (Of late.. Ranch Hand his favorite.)
From New York to LA, Taos and Santa Fe, Mojave Desert, Coast of North Carolina, points South and South East — considers himself blessed.
Johnny’s love of animals, boundless. Current position working on a hacienda in Florida as laborer and horse whisperer has recently come to its seasonal conclusion. Greyhound and the Jersey Shore are drawing him North.
Some of all this Bio is true — most of Wolf’s tales as well. Those illusory are hung on stories told him by dear friends or his own brush with similar, if not exactly the same.
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