The Story Behind Kaintophobia Amongst the Arachnids

Since I released The Sun On My Palm, I have had several people ask me the story behind the poem, Kaintophobia Amongst the Arachnids. Here it is, for those with querying lips…

New Chapbook: The Sun On My Palm

Just released! Kyle Richtig’s first chapbook in over a year and a half, The Sun On My Palm is available for free download.

Never Become a Household Name

Never become a household name
for if you do
you will lose yourself
to the pussy willows
of happenstance
memories personalized and
proportional.

Ripples Unimpeded

I yearn for words
that drip forth
from mouth to air in effect
of butterfly wings
rippling forth
omnidirectional

The Marriage of Two Worlds

I’ve often thought
About the chocolate bridge,
The cultural tie that fuses
The old world with the new.

Balance Act

I’m balancing on a wire suspended between two bridges. Far below, the canopy of ocean with its welcoming embrace waits, choked with plastic and wasted expectations.

Download ‘Empathetic Viscera’ Free

Kyle Richtig has released his 2013 chapbook Empathetic Viscera for free digital download!

Drum

It’s true
the steady rhythm
of the beating drum
counting heartbeats
and voices in the night.
That song of Utopia
slips away in the fog
a vision fleeted
obscured
by individualism.

Long Buried

New year spins
again.
Forgotten webs
of promises
dust the corners
and the high places
making old
a vision of once
all the promise
replaced by silence
in a lonely tomb.

Invitation

Hear ye, hear ye!
All who live in blindness
In blissful canoes that float
On surfaces of suffering
Listen and open up
All who embrace slavery
As a matter of course
Fictionalized as history past
The book has gotten rusty
In storms of acidified thought
Collected like jars of sunlight
Time now lost to memory
And the realization stings
The past never ends