Friday, December 27, 2013

The Day of the Smoldering Crow


Day after day dark smoky birds were among us
Those glass crows flying through the mirrors
Darting to and fro between us and our likeness
For god’s sake if we ever truly angered one
Another our brilliant black wax effigies very likely
Would fall our broken hands our cracked voices
After poetry suffocates in the tar of desire how
Much more meaningful the dawn of things
The stillborn logic of loneliness the clean space
Of solitude governed by what numbers what
Hedge where a crow huddles behind greenery
I am standing in this trampled light ecstatic now
Knee-deep in a tepid pool of something you
Could ignite with a match if you were here

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