Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Poem: Phalloides

 

Phalloides

 

death angels in pale cowls

preside over a feast

of crumble and decay,

 

and i wonder

about these fleshy bald thugs,

cudgel-like as condyles,

 

how they lord so young and brash,

basking in wind,

 

as autumn buries

the greying carrion of summer,

cold as an aimless gravedigger,


shovel after shovel

of gusty scuffles of fate--

 

the only excuse needed

to batten on the fallen

and to prophesy snow.



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