Alice Evermore

“when the past and the future
tug upon the present moment
with delicate, unrelenting arms

when ambition
overreaches talent

when dull-dark sunshine penetrates
closed eyelids

when the heart disregards
the mind

when the imaginary friend
appears before the child

when a sudden clap of thunder
echoes across the meadow
of intuition

when the glint of an erupting star
spreads over eons
like a faint, frozen scream

when blue-purple twilight
settles upon the garden

when the jaguar’s cuspids
wrench open the elephant’s cranium

when dew droplets gather upon the anthers
of a cherry blossom

when the Earth turns so slowly upon its axis
only electrons can feel its drag

when a summer’s night
sitting by the water’s edge
can stretch into forever…

- We Pass Away, Alice Evermore”
― Alice Evermore

“beyond the optic chiasma
just above the precipice of the spinal cord
there flows a stream -
a stream awash with neurotransmitters
noradrenalines
and histamines
a hidden cascade of blood
singing with signals
a stream of consciousness…
- The Underground River (excerpt)”
― Alice Evermore

“remember how we used to play"

in the upper atmosphere
in the vertical climb
in the sky above the clouds
remember how we used to play

in the nautical dusk
along the radians of midheaven…
out there
amid the scattered wavelengths
within the aerosols of a meteorological meadow
we tread upon the aether

side by side
the ampere and the joule
the whisper and the gleam
borne along effervescent freeways
remember how we came to rest
inside the amethyst auditorium
of a storm

there -
suspended in an echo-plex of thunder
you drew me close
and I tasted
the voltage of your skin
the radiometry of your eyes
the amphetamine of your lips
the flushed cushion of your tongue”
― Alice Evermore