Friday, December 27, 2013

Love's Fist

                                        One drop of night’s black ink a rarified
                                        Blue blood smear on dawn’s laboratory slide
                                        As stellar consternation’s scruples mount
                                        Anent earth’s elevated white cell count,
         
                                        The town begins to stir. A distant car
                                        Sneezes to life. Its starting leaves a scar
                                        On the slashed silence. Trash cans sing
                                        As drivers feed them before motoring.

                                        Thunderous birdsong floods the ear and wheezes
                                        As love’s fist grasps a feathered heart and squeezes.
                                        The fist that wrings the poor bird’s soggy heart
                                        And animates its limbs in every part

                                        Massages pistons in the engine’s chest
                                        And quickens matter at the wind’s behest.
                                        Some sodden cars parked street-wise sweat with dew
                                        In the cool morning air’s metallic stew.

                                        8/24/2011

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