Nov 28, 2016 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Quatrains, Rubaiyat
The plates were full and all the wine provided by the levies of the King, misguided though he was, until the finger wrote “you are Numbered. Numbered. Weighed. Divided.” You dress in purple and that garotte of golden chains weighs heavy on your royal...
Jun 27, 2016 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Multi-Syllabic Rhyme, The Unspeakable Name vol. 2
Does God still have a body? Buried though he was? And risen now as from a seed with root and stem. Then branches, varied, grow up like cedars towering above those reeds that fringe the Styx where souls are ferried slow to find new bodies. It’s said they’ll...
Jan 24, 2016 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Prophets, Sonnet, The Unspeakable Name vol. 2, Victorian Sonnet
What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; -The Prophet Joel We’ve eaten all the corn we’d saved for seed and there are no animals left to bleed upon our stone altars trying to appease the storm gods or whoever’s there to...
Jul 23, 2014 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Quatrains, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1
There was hardly time for her to close the door; but a moment in the darkness passed before she cast her veil upon the floor and welcomed him to end his long-held fast. Then on her breasts she felt his wine-drunk lips whisper, “Rachel, Rachel my little...
Apr 24, 2014 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Sestina, The Unspeakable Name vol. 2
Some he bruises, some he bleeds, some he leaves son-less in a stranger’s land. Some spit curses, while others fear they’re damned. What man can sort the flowers from the weeds— can crack the husk to reap the treasured seeds? We only see through this...
Jan 28, 2013 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Sonnet, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1, Victorian Sonnet
His finger carved a sentence from the stone and the command carved a people from the whole. But they spilled an ink that settles in the bone when they ignored the scribblings of the scroll. While people beneath were busy fouling souls, casting a god they could not...
