Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Autumnal Slap


*
Leaves fall
cathedral, oblique.

Did I just imagine 
it all. And now

the bark falls
off the sycamore 

like the flesh 
off my bones.

My pastoral static
cryptic in the pyramids 

of oak, ash and thorn,
the low weeping 

tentacles, electric,
methuselah. 

*
You folded your arms
like a mummy

and in 11 words
my silent ferris wheel 

           eyes 

hung darkful over oceans.


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