Constraints :

  • 1. Text can be read both backwards and forwards, word-by-word.
  • 2. Text has an odd number of words.
  • 3. The middle word means the opposite of the first (and hence the last) word

Dark,

the outside trains the eyes detective. Visiting, the rising sun, comforting somewhat

the collapsed stars as children their cherished dinosaurs, plays the distracting role :

leading his following bloomers, billowing cecilias, above

the fray, growing blindly. Miscalculations, stony as planets, puncture the

order eternal; and sublime justices suspect criminals subliminal.

Prosecution and defense both move that words are untrustworthy

vehicles, shrieking bloody murder : of evidences only the truly

material matter. Is this rule the fixed star's directing? Answers

the detective: self-deceptive the promises, virtuous the

compromising. Duty of dereliction engineers corrupt

conduct. Intent Lucifers whisper clues,

convincing lunatics to cleave shadows

as moon's following departed.

Those of vision tunnel

inside the

light

the inside

tunnel vision of those

departed, following moons as

shadows cleave to lunatics. Convincing

clues whisper Lucifer's intent : conduct

corrupt engineers. Dereliction of duty, compromising

the virtuous, promises the self-deceptive detective the

answers. Directing stars fixed the rule : this is matter material,

truly the only evidences of murder : bloody, shrieking vehicles.

Untrustworthy are words that move both defense and prosecution,

subliminal criminals. Suspect justices, sublime and eternal, order

the puncture : planets as stony miscalculations, blindly growing, fray the

above cecilias, billowing bloomers, following his leading

role, distracting the plays. Dinosaurs cherished their children, as stars collapsed the

somewhat comforting sun. Rising, the visiting detective eyes the trains outside the

dark.

Note : the above is an extract from my book Murder by (Loco)motive. Prior to the publication of that book, I published this poem as an NFT.