Saturday, March 21, 2026

Poem: Misstep

 

 

Misstep

 

a tote of ants

swells over the desert flesh.

jags of shredded wing and torn ort

vain as crowns.

 

eons have trained them

into a chain gang of riots,

lent them the surety

of a frenzied magnetic field.

 

one lack-of-mind

ignores all concept.

one heart diffusive

in arteries of branching lust.

 

the ants have eaten the eyes

of a bricolage of fallen creatures,

have taken the lessons

back to the gulch --

 

that time-twisting oracle

of mangled strata,

that great original unforgiving

insatiable bowel. 

 


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