Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Poem: Always

 

Always

 

staticky engines

trample the air,

a grumble of cubisms near condos.

 

endless at noon, vrooms at 3am,

never to die, always fail--

fail to exit the oxide

of the asphalt constrictor.

 

amid sloughs of smog,

above a single flaxen, weedy, parched half acre,

a single kestrel 


thwarts miles of clockwork fangs

and intestines of cement,

safe from the Serpentine moat


of oily cars.  





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9/27/25 .. nightmarish edit orgy

11/29/23  ... lots more mods 

4/9 ... cosmetic mods

4/8 ... cosmetic mods

4/7 more mods to end of poem ... 

4/6 ... more mods ...lots of mods to the last few stanzas... three separate edits today


"sloughs of smog" replaces "smoggy sloughs"

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