Saturday, July 02, 2022

Chickens are scraping the yard
I watch a fault line open in the sky
grates and manhole covers
come tumbling out
from the sorrows of lightning

I take my despotic hand
and shove it into the fire
a woman's body carved from sapling pine
outlined against the deeper trees
that gave her being

a shadow angel shaped in shaded pools
could come no closer.

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