bulges and slants
toward the darkened sun.
Mossy serpents tangling
with electric wire.
On the flat, upraised stone,
a poet sitting with his last beer
watching his future mutate
on the oil slicked pools.
Worlds without end the emptiest parts of the life span crows and ravens prey on frozen, hungry brown bears as if it could smash through solid rock an eye on some freakist, million-to-one