cantilene

Ash songs

    Sun on the ashtray
          Ashtoreth

     unhusk yourself

singeless          seamless
             white
sunless              sinless
             fistula

      the sun is edible
          in glasses
               of
        rimless frost

rima                 rimula

           fissured
              sky

Fresh palm:
in the blessed isle of
sand-divers
the sun is edible

Ashbird of cineraria
in the blessed isle of
athanasia
Drown in the palm of radial sheaves
Unearth the sun in eye-grained seas

& pluck throat-chords
unloose sun-ropes
losing face in a hair-noose sizzle
Open the dawn of seedless sheathes:
ash-down on bird-leaves
topple the urn of voiceless shears--
ashbird of cineraria
in the blessed isle of
athanasia

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Poems

Home

         Wing Blades
   unshackle the earth--
            immune
             a bird
           punctures
        the ash
                   trees
         unsheathes
          the night
              of
            elytra

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Fissures