Perched where the feathers point

to the limits of blood,

where the stripes inflicted on flesh

extend throughout the surrounding fields,

electric stars assemble vast

intestinal constellations.

Smoking on a peak of moss

and communicating mica.

Brain where the gun sprays

on imagined marketplace

and subsides in languor.

Over the fields of tar

and concrete runways

a lightburst travels

heading for the braided corn.