My bio
Merritt Waldon (born 1974 , Madison Indiana) is Southern Indiana poet who has been published in Road Dawgz, Sun Poetic Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Be About It Zine, River Dogs zine #1, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Americans & others anthology fourth edition & sixth edition, Crisis Chronicles, Cajun Mutt Press, The Rye Whiskey Review, FEARLESS!, Twizted TungZ magazine, Voices from the fire(dumpster fire press), The Black Shamrock magazine, Feversofthemind.com, Strange Gods of the Prairie (Gasconade Review), Cooch Behar Anthology edited by Sourav Sarkar.
At midnight Christmas night 2020, Cajun Mutt Press released Oracles from a Strange Fire by Ron Whitehead & Merritt. Also his second & third books Pistol City Blues(2021) & Madison Street Screams & Smoke Break Poems(2022) were published by Deadmans Press Ink, 2024 Poems by Sourav Sarkar & Waldon published by Cooch Behar. Also Recovering Roar Haiku and other short poems published by Dumpster Fire Press . November 2025 Camion Press in Italy published his 6th book Elongated Star. He was Poet Laureate of Scottsburg, Indiana 2021-2024
He lives in Austin, Indiana. USA
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THAT IS BEAUTY & LOVE TIED TO TONGUE SPIRIT POEM__for //
Watch her walk , hips
swaying bounce
The heart pound joy celebrating the vision
Her wonder filled form
my goddess
Of the American night dressed derision
Lurid affairs around beach bonfires
Sonic booms & moon lit drives loves incision
Penetrating bodies with tongues sounds
Holy moaning tremor Christ's in ecstatic ascension
Hovering over planet entangled forms
Fusing as one eternal vessel sacramental orgasm
While satyrs & Naiads dance round& round
Chanting braiding the lovers in to the invisible chasm
Whence came the throbbing raw release
The continual tantric tidal wave mad electric spasm
As we, she , I
unified , integrated eternal blue fire
Drenched saturated passion scorched sacred phantasm
That is Beauty & love tied to the tongue spirit poem
Chthonic soul ribbons our savage convulsing incarnation
The heart pound joy celebrating the vision
Of the American night dressed derision
Sonic booms & moon lit drives loves incision
Holy moaning tremor Christ's in ecstatic ascension
Fusing as one eternal vessel sacramental orgasm
Chanting braiding the lovers in to the invisible chasm
The continual tantric tidal wave mad electric spasm
Drenched saturated passion scorched sacred phantasm
Chthonic soul ribbons our savage convulsing incarnation
Vignette of Alienated despair__after Alan Dugan/
Man feeling half a man feeling insignificant
Compared to those once rejected by the
Hollow man reeling in the mute emptiness
Of it all while “the insane cannibalistic
Civilization" picks the Blakean dream of
Illuminated joy from its teeth with microphones
Echoing with Pop photocopied laminated plastic
Peoples self aggrandizing eulogies & songs
About broken innocence & spirit shards
Jaggedly dragging across reality's skin
In dingy late night bathrooms while Beauty
& truth od somewhere in pistol city
Shooting up too much silence & shadow
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Compared to those once rejected by the
Hollow man reeling in the mute emptiness
Of it all while “the insane cannibalistic
Civilization" picks the Blakean dream of
Illuminated joy from its teeth with microphones
Echoing with Pop photocopied laminated plastic
Peoples self aggrandizing eulogies & songs
About broken innocence & spirit shards
Jaggedly dragging across reality's skin
In dingy late night bathrooms while Beauty
& truth od somewhere in pistol city
Shooting up too much silence & shadow
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