Freezing fog Ices over the bog Of suburbs Sleeping sound Crows perch on Dead branches At the edge Of the streets Cawing effervescently In the obscuring frost It floats and cloaks Unwithering And stopping still Sunlight
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Redshifted Telecom Pleiades
Redshifted Telecom Pleiades Idle air nibbles with Cold teeth at the warmth Coming off of Bodies wandering streets Frosted telecom jungles Canopy the intersections And the skyline above Shines through the wires Red blinking alpine lightning Rods warn aircraft of low Altitude treetop masts as Towerkilling Pleiades can Orient the avians To high-strung cables TangledContinue reading “Redshifted Telecom Pleiades”
die Bionic herfs
This is an essay I’ve had gelling around in my head for a while. I consider this to be my soft opening to NANOWRIMO, because I’m sure as hell not going to get 2,000 words a day at this rate. This was written with references to Afrikaans in mind. And there’s a lot of portmanteausContinue reading “die Bionic herfs”
Sparrow
Sparrow Birch bark shaped Into bows And tied Opus chimeric Now taught How to fly Never withering Or ever Fragmenting A cedar stick Shot true and Can’t miss
Avanti
Avanti Around rubied feathers lie Ashes dusting thine Branches with meager Orange particle weavers Blackened beak speaks Alone in a wood Echoing off of trunks And crackling tree boughs Ashes crisp with dew Tumble down the branches Dusting the leaves With their passings Cast to the forest bed From the tall canopy Of grey canvasingContinue reading “Avanti”
Heretics
Heretics The crow touches a rosary to its forehead Then tosses it to a gutter Outside a church As the crow is followed by followers The dove sees this And lingers behind The line of avians Who follow the crow A jay watches this From across the street Dark eyes calculating All the others’ movesContinue reading “Heretics”
Old World Red
Old World Red Under your pitched tent I roll out my bed It’s just a pad under my head But it’s my place to rest The cloth’s aroma of old world reds Brings to me a dispel of dread And my pockets are filled With ticket stubs and coins My coveralls jingle With memory ofContinue reading “Old World Red”
Sun Stained
Sun Stained She had a quintessence audience Gliding silk smooth wave motions Slow lapping, gentle rhythms Hurting rain and hot earth steam Waxing moons rising Trail lines blurring And the air is flowing So smooth The birds circled and flew Overhead undercast A goddess dove and prince crow Circled and danced and revolved It wasContinue reading “Sun Stained”
Phoenix
Phoenix Come on, crow Let’s leave the dove We have much to do We must get acquainted The other bird must dwell In its own misery She was growing Tired of your calls, anyways Let her have fits Let her cry Let the dove flap about Over nothing to crow about Let her regret AsContinue reading “Phoenix”
Birds In the Bay
Birds in the Bay A crow and a jay On the rocks by the bay Never wanted to leave The nest they had dreamed of After both once bereaved The jay would always sing The crow always cry Solace in a place once empty The sound of their sound Echoed off the waves They lappedContinue reading “Birds In the Bay”
