Via Storm Clouds

By Leghorn Faust

Via Storm Clouds is the culmination of decades worth of writing poetry that may or may not have been written in the Midwest.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524600129

Leghorn Faust

Next to nothing is none about this book's author, Leghorn Faust. What is known is he has been in hiding for the last several decades due to threats from the Pangaea Preservation Society, a cultist group that preaches the doctrine of "One Continent, One Earth, One Love."

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/22/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-0011-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-0012-9 (e)

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Contents

Celeste

Somewhere, Everywhere

Insensibilities and A Lack Of Discretion

We Never Made It to 505

Mutual Reimbursement

Noir

Going Back to How We Were

Ambigua

Debutante

Ghosts All

Late Night Birthday Gifts

Escapade

Great Afternoon at the Publishing Company

She Must Probably Know A Lot

None of the Women

You Want to be Around

Decalogue of Fire & Water

Femalia

Bookend

Manumit

Defecation

Jamaican 45

Aplomb

Freedom Fighter

Thumbing Through Words

Inverted Phallus

The Seed That Will Grow A Mighty Acorn

Pensive Chivalry

Sew All the Words, Reap the Benefits

Deleterious

Swarming In Viscera

In Tandem

Spontaneous Piece of Human Flesh

The Happenings At 327 Maple Leaf

Machine Gun Soul

Susurrations

Fugue

Posthumously

Her Electrical Corset

Vignette

Small Solace

Ascendant

She’s Omni

A Crisis of Confidence

Opaque Glass

Eros, Baby

The Girl We Know That We Don’t Know

37 Days After the Incident Happened

An Impending Frigid Moment

Flailing

Kingdom of Open Limbs

People Being Murdered All the Time

A Face Full of Mountains

Abstart

Abdication

Tess

Fluffer

Her & All Her Stupid Mistakes

Old Man

Well Spoken Soft Spoken

Prepping the Talons She Wished She Had

Not Proper Discussion for

Dinner Time with Your Family

Something Else Happened

Handsome Young Poem

Just Sitting By

Never Wear Your Heart

on Your Sleeve During a Knife Fight

Replete With Beverages

Insurmountable

Delicatessen

Clarion Call

Androgynous Strip

Her Sinister Strands

Storyboard Collection

Don’t Take Your Cue From This

Viced

For Persephone

Big Heart Dumb Heart

Malevolent Serenade

Epigraph

His Most Depraved Art

It’s Just What You Do

Tangible

December 31st, 2012

Postscript

Acknowledgements

Someday this book will be dedicated to someone

Via Storm Clouds

Celeste

someone

a girl

once told me

"Your problem

is that you know

what you want."

I wasn’t paying attention

to what she was telling me

though

I was too busy

watching her clothes

ride the curves of her body

Somewhere, Everywhere

she’s like rock and roll

but she don’t look it

to tell

you’d have to look

into her bloodshot eyes

staying up with her all night

reading in bed

books by David Sedaris

while she laid quietly

hallucinating to herself

and singing songs

about Jesus Christ in her head

careful, not to offend

proving that the only thing

a girl can do wrong

is not be herself

we didn’t always have to get naked

in order to have a good time

on those most memorable of occasions

we’d just stay up and talk or argue

about faith, science, rationality and reason

as well as the history of ignorance

death, dying, the earth

with its continuously

shifting tectonic plates

proving once again, that the earth

is just a slight bit older than 6,000 years

and that anyone who will tell you otherwise

has a religious agenda

patience, impatience,

the time I got ran over by a car

provocative album covers

and the great works of the Amish,

with their furniture

together, her and I would prove

over and over again

that such close friends of the opposite sex

didn’t always have to get naked

in order to have a great evening in bed

though it does help sometimes

Insensibilities and A Lack Of Discretion

the people were reading,

combing, texting, writing,

listening to their favorite bands,

heating coffee beans

and smacking the scoops

against the knock box

as music played over the speakers

but no one was paying attention

to any of that in particular

they were all too self-involved

in what they were discussing

as a woman said how tired

she was of having to download

music onto her computer

the guy working the cash register

did his best to explain

to a girl who had never been there before

about the differences between

slow drip and French press

as a girl with a pierced nose

and a butt hiked up too high

in the jeans she was wearing

spoke to a man in