AMONGST THE CLOUDS
A BIRD RENDERS A NEST
INFESTED WITH THE FATIGUE
FROM SAD, SICKENED STRANGERS
GRASPING FOR AIR
DILUTED
AS A STREAM
INVISIBLE TO VULNERABLE SIGHT
A CIGARETTE SMUDGES THE CANVAS
ONCE PRAISED AN ATMOSPHERE
WITH TOXINS
CONTAINING CANCER
SOMEONE’S SON SINGS
FOR THE DEAD
STILL CAN HEAR
SECRETS OPPRESSED IN SHAME
COLLAPSING ESTEEM
ESCAPES FROM THE DIRT
HOSTILITY IS PROMINENT
ON EITHER SIDE
A THREAD CUTS ITSELF LOOSE
SO FELL
IN FALLING
A TREE FAINTS
ITS BRANCHES ENRAGED
BY LIFE LOSS
POTENTIALLY DISMISSED
POTENTIAL IS CRITICAL
MOSTLY OF ITSELF
THE PUBLIC SITS
UNDER STOLEN SHADE
A GREEN HAND
GRASPS AT THE SKY
AND SMILING
CEASES ALL OPTIMISM
FLOGGED WHATSOEVER AN EMPTY SHELL
CIRCULATES BLOOD
PARCHED BUT TRYING
TILL COMPLETELY DRAINED
OR IN DEATH
OBSOLETE ORGANS PROTEST
WITH ROOTS INTACT
WHAT DIFFERENCE DICTATES
WITHIN
BEHOLDS WHAT LIES
ACCORDINGLY SHOULD IRREGARDLESS
SLITHER BENEATH THE SOIL’S
SOIL A SLUG
SWEEPS…
SWEATING OF PREDATORS
DRENCHING TRENCHES
A SURFACE
ENCLOSED BY ACOUSTIC OFFERING
COME LOOSE OFF A TRUMPET
UNCONVENTIONAL MISERY
EVAPORATES FROM GOLD
HOPE IN BEAMING
DEPRIVED SOULS SHALL
WORDS OF REASSURANCE
RIDICULE THE BOILING SIGNAL
FROM HELL
IN A POT SCORCHES ITS ONLY SUNS
IN HEAVEN
WHERE HEAVEN IS ENOUGH
MANY A MOTHER OF
AWAITS
UNFASTENED
CHANTING
MYSTERIOUS SIGNAL
PUNCTURES A CLOUD
INTERPRET HEREAFTER
LOSSES BOUND FOR BIRTHDAYS
OPEN WITH TEARS
SPORT SMIRKS
OFF-LIMITS A SMILE
MASKING
NOTHING BUT
A THING THAT IS OTHERWISE
PURE
IS SPOILED
LEFT FOR ROTTING
BUT
WHERE BEATING
ONCE A BRAIN
BREATHES
FLUORESCENT DREAMS
REINFORCED BY THE DECIMAL
THINK TO THUS QUESTION
ABUNDANCE
PUT FORTH PROMISES
SEEP THROUGH LOOSE SKIN
OOZE SUPERFLUOUSLY
INSECURITY
SAGGING SLIGHTLY
TOO THIN
AND WEAK
FRAGILITY SPEAKS
AT CEREMONIES WHERE SNAKES ROAM
TIE YOUR LEGS YOURSELF
BEFORE THEY ARE TIED
NOT FOR YOU IN UNIFICATION
THE TONGUE UNTIES ITSELF
URGENTLY
URGENCY IS OBLIGATION DIVERTED
CONFESSIONS SPILL MERCILESSLY
BLOOD BECOMES INK
IN AN INK BATH
LEECHES BASK
VEHEMENTLY
AT ONE AND ONCE
ANOTHER SCREAMS IN ANTICIPATION
THE SCAMMER
SINCERELY POWERFUL
FORGES A WAY
TO THE ALTAR
SELF- BELIEF
IS OF THE ESSENCE
IMPREGNATED WITH SALT
SALINE EXPRESSIONS
RELEASED IN ASSERTION
THE IMPRESSIVE ONESELF
WHO OCCASIONALLY SHARES
I HAVE COME FROM LANDS OVERSEAS
I HAVE STOLEN LAND
OVERSEAS
I HAVE RIDDED YOU
OF YOURS
I HAVE RIDDLED OF YOUR LIFE
ALL
I SUMMON MYSELF
NOW NEVER WILL NOT BE DOOMED
BY THIS GENERATION
AND WHATEVER THE NEXT
THREE TIMES I WILL GRIEVE
IN CONTEST
THE AVERAGE HECKLER DARES NOT HECKLE
ON STAGE
A BABY SINS
FOR INFANTS
WHO WERE FORLORN BEFORE
ARE VICTORS RESURRECTED
EXCEPTING GLORY
EXEMPTING CLASS
IF LIFE WAS A POEM I’D DARE ONLY OFFER THIS LINE FOR A VERSE IS PERHAPS TOO VERBOSE
