Poem: Before

 

Before

 

no bald pigs slopping at troughs,

no gelded, branded, broken chattel,

roams of aurochs instead,

foams of errant bats,

 

and neon weaves

of fish who escher-dart through 

a tapestry of kelp

luminous and pregnant with medusas.

 

no satellites to slice the waist of Venus,

no contrails blatant as a rogue bullet,

none of the flatulence  

from an airplane’s ass, no, 

prosperous skies instead,

opulent from minstrel flocks,

 

blossoms of butterflies vivid,

flirting with fey moths,

 

how they waltz and go, 

effuse and pirouette,

 

no streetlamps to confuse,

no tar to smack the primal esplanades,

 

which pollinate golden.

 no corporate pollutants.

no unnatural effluents and excrements

poisonous 

to all that has ever breathed.

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5/26 serious mods

12/11/25 beam me up scotty

1/28/24 ... more mods

12/30/23 ... "has ever been birthed" replaces "had ever been made"