Thursday, March 30, 2023

motif

The crow calling loudly outside 

the front window is the same 

crow hopping through buds and 

blossoms about the boughs of 

the front yard tree reaching towards 

the bright blue cool spring sky 

stretching itself a path to the sun.

Those black wings warning everyone 

heaven is farther than it looks.

Like the shape we call a star

marked like art across the firmament, 

it flies spirals down the skin

sight applies to the puzzle,

the mess the mystery makes of the map

the raw knees where the road

touches rhetoric sharp

jostling the gossip 

memory makes

the click clack of bones

off track, every vision 

a dare to look away.

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