Helen of Troy

Pitless blue sacks
of eye-mass blowing you
airborne I i cardinal
eradicator of timely lives

Opiate hoofprints
Surge in my stainless head

you show me

You brink the mist that wisps wisps that mime a crown for ratkings everywhere

You must
Show me

The quack of an evergreen haunt
Blanks my hyoid quashed

Ambergris glimpses past sheets of war
Where army-charming faces
birl skinless in forever


PJ Lombardo is a poet from New Jersey. He co-edits GROTTO, a journal of grotesque-surrealist poetics. His work can be found in mercury firs, DREGINALD, Lana Turner Journal, the Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere.