Author: David Park Musella
David Park Musella is the literary editor of FREE INQUIRY magazine as well as a published author. He also hosts Literary Caf� South at Natasha�s, a semiannual literary reading that benefits the God�s Pantry Food Bank of Central and Eastern Kentucky. (He read this poem at the most recent Literary Caf� South while juggling seven flaming batons�or three glittery balls, depending on whom you talk to.)
Le Jongleur / ‘SPLC Wins $2.5 Million Verdict against Klans of America’
I. Le Jongleur Order and balance provide the paths to chaos, Repeatedly tying pretzel knots in the air. Manual motions produce the cascade, rising And falling in the Ouroboros flights of spheres. The Juggler founds these oscillations, prime mover Of a universe spun separate from our own. Its bodies move by order of his will …
To Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), Who Posited the Ring Structure of the Benzene Molecule
You had a vision of a serpent swallowing its own tail. You, a German working in Belgium in imperialist Europe of the nineteenth century, y ou had a vision of a serpent swallowing its own tail, and all you got from it was a lousy benzene ring.