Decomposition hasn't begun ...
While poetry and writing occupy a large amount of Clint Smith's creative energies, currently his focus is on music from rock and jazz to world music and Afro-pop, and back again. He performs in and around NYC both solo and with the Non-Aligned Movement, a loose-knit collective of musicians who play music from
around the world.
By Clint Smith
... though many founts of
worship breed violence,
combustible & holy from a
fledgling basin
... characters' Neptune-show
ascends, & the violence
spreads through lies, vines coiling
around promises
... fanatics expect weakness &
extract there, pitting skeletons
from the nectar, pursuing extinction
in their own step
... & peace underneath
the slithering belly scales
the beast.
2004
Published May 2005
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