Sunday, January 8, 2012

Dry Oak Tree


dry oak tree

unlaminated

glistening

curls

a doorway of hesitant circles


low moan followed

clutching spasm

after slowly instantaneous

shattering of limb


her lying still

her turned words

and the darkness

like a sound of horses

growing rising bursting forth

descending out

from limbs and trunk and wind


a rush of wings

threshing of breath

harvest of caught eyes

outcry of blindness


fingers skittering across the stones

braided so deep into

the twist of height


becoming nothing


an arrow

splintering outward

from her break of bended bow


my bleeding temple

streaked across her spattered leaves

stirring against concrete


a new autumnal sound


as I go on

uplifting my destroyed wrist

and clear eyes


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