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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