Monday, August 19, 2013

When the Sky Skins Darkness


In this violent milk of night no stars
Fall from our furtive hands
But still we open 
Our bodies to the light of a voice

We open arms
To the lustrous and feathered
Groove of a song a bird or more
Likely an arrow in vertical flight

Shall we abandon our breath
Quivering beneath the weight of a wing?
Shall we crowd the first broken note
Fluttering in the wake of discord?

We are the weary but defiant sigh
The wounded prey waiting
For the invincible laws of rhythm
To strike a final blow

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