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June 2013

Written on 01 May 2021.

how fine!
the strain of clinging
to dreams


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

empty sky . . .
a vulture returns
to fuck all


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

darkening sky . . .
vultures keep watch over
a vale of tears


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

pas de deux . . .
a vulture outsmarts
the crow


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

seventh day . . .
vultures feed on the
afterbirth


Written on 01 May 2021.

a vulture
sniffs out the state
of Denmark


Written on 01 May 2021.

branching out —
vultures in committee
form a quorum


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

Irish stew —
finnegan's wake
of vultures


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

moon halo —
the vulture eyes
a ring finger


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

dawn parade . . .
a vulture flies itself
at half-mast


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

stricken ill
a vulture scavenges
extant dreams


Written on 01 May 2021.

summer grasses . . .
a vulture circles over
soldier's dreams


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

urban garden . . .
among skeletal trees
a vulture waits


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

autumn's end . . .
a vulture turns over
the pieces


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

twilight dusk —
a bell bird trembles
on its trill


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

cold silence!
it twists into the night
like a knife


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

mirror lake . . .
a mallard upends
within itself


Written on 01 May 2021.

an ode nightingale
pours forth its ecstatic heart . . .
do I wake or sleep?


 

Written on 01 May 2021.

night shelter . . .
a Samaritan's
extra mile


 

Written on 01 June 2013.

autumn dusk . . .
I pass by shapes
I should know

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