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  1. Sand Castle

    Damned be anything 
    that rises up out of this sand,
    where the sea licks and leaves its froth,
    the waves like fingers in their ceaseless clawing,
    betrayed by the white whisper of the surf,
    that eternal purging to loosen 
    the smallest grains in relentless toil,
    until all the walls crumble and the tower sways,
    then falls like a slithering serpent that slides
    wounded and torn beneath the emerald sea.

    October 26, 1988
    Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica

    Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988

    #1988 #1988Poem #CentralAmerica #coastalImagery #CostaRica #crumblingTower #emeraldSea #erosion #gothicArt #KeithLyndaker #kmls #lyricalPoetry #natureAndDecay #Ocean #originalPoem #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #PuertoViejo #ruins #sand #sea #serpent #Slowmover #spiritualMetaphor #surf #surrealSeascape #symbolicArt #Travel #travelPoetry #visualPoetry #waves #WordPressTagsPoetry #Writing
  2. Beantoss Mandala Time Ends Today

    The last day of Beantoss Mandala Time is not a Jackalopian holiday and I have written no new material. Yesterday, or today, or tomorrow may be the holiday for the Passeggiata of Kalkatura Pumkta, which you can read about at the link provided. Or (also) you may enjoy reading about the holiday called Rakjangrimko, aka Ingrimko Unwa Walks Out, which was celebrated last week, or on July 13 for some people. One day in the future, the two holidays may become a five-day festival. I have been told […]

    vraic.wordpress.com/2026/07/29

  3. Fearing Figments

    everything is so soft
    it seems as if you are floating
    like a feather
    lying on the air

    the darkness rises slowly
    you see a room before you
    thinly lit with moonlight
    a form materializes
    out of the darkness

    it is pale
    pale as a ghost
    a ghost!

    you freeze
    sweat dripping
    down your face
    you close your eyes

    something soft touches your shoulder

    you jump

    you are falling
    falling
    falling

    bump!

    you hit something hard
    your bedroom floor
    you rebuke yourself

    scared of your own pillow
    and a shirt thrown over a chair

    From the collection “Words at 16 (1983)”

    #1983 #atmosphericWriting #bedroomNightmare #childhoodFear #DarkPoetry #dreamLogic #dreamPoem #eeriePoetry #fallingDream #Fear #fearAndImagination #fearPoem #ghostPoem #gothicPoetry #hauntedRoom #haunting #Imagination #kmlsPoetry #moonlight #pillowGhost #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #psychologicalHorror #shadows #spookyPoem #strangePoetry #surrealPoetry #uncanny #visualPoetry #WordPressTagsForThePoemNightmarePoem #Writing
  4. Two Poems 21

    Today's Horoscope Once all this ink dries it will become antiqueand perpetual—but your road does not endin a late jade lithograph of the east before west.Receive and overcome the lords of ruin, deaf gods,wastewater, and a closed eye undirected to the world.Escape from even a single minute's pantomimeof docility. The stars reel and bind: do not forgetpity for three wool-capped men and the bridewith a coffee-stained sleeve. All Posts in the Two Poems Series About the Series

    vraic.wordpress.com/2026/07/16