Thursday, June 3, 2021

enchanted

The sickness sticks 

from stem to stern

it thrives from shuck to jive,

a shambles dragging 

deadweight through

the bright blue of

the livelong day

the depths of the intention 

buried in the sediment

the one-way ticket

up and spent, breath to breath

all dust and dreck and slow

dying in dribs and drabs 

clockwork and wet work and 

this turning of the word

thick with breezy warm gloom.

The weeds are thick with wish and

worms in turn as each

dog takes its day and

these liminal bones

clack and thunk as

the socks come off,

the consequences left of

this service to the vast enchantment.

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