ANDREW BRENZA is the author of the hybrid novel WRYTHM (Montag) and the visual poetry collections Colorways (Anhinga) and Smear (BlazeVOX). His speculative, formal poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Strange Horizons, The Lyric, The Orchards, Blue Unicorn, Spectral Realms, Space & Time Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Dark Horses, The Dawntreader and Altered Reality.
The Presence
Venus, Auriga and the crescent moon
Westward jeweled horizon’s sinking crown.
But earthshine haunted like an ancient rune
The filmy darkness of an eye so bound,
And bade the draping shadows’ lightless dance
That quickened clement blood to wild storm,
Whose conjured stillness from an eyeless glance
Tempted formless presence to the verge of form.
A Crowded Wood
Beneath a grate of autumn clouds, I stood
Breathless as a stone, in a crowded wood,
Among the dusty litter of the leaves
That blanketed the roots of barren trees.
And still I sang of winter’s coming pall
As though the dead could sing themselves to sleep;
And so I made a feather of the fall
Where prying death and time go plunging deep.
ANDREW BRENZA is the author of the hybrid novel WRYTHM (Montag) and the visual poetry collections Colorways (Anhinga) and Smear (BlazeVOX). His speculative, formal poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Strange Horizons, The Lyric, The Orchards, Blue Unicorn, Spectral Realms, Space & Time Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Dark Horses, The Dawntreader and Altered Reality.