CARAPACE (POEMS) by Henry Kanabus

Poetry from Studies with Ed Dorn and Ted Berrigan

Monday, December 16, 2013

NIGHTSCAPE

Faltering in this season
of reluctant gloves

an apostle of the grain belt
has secured four notes
of suicide

from your porcelain pocket
and will not relent

.

He has brought you
silver in a cyclone truck

and has painted
the wings of his falcon
a dark red

Gasoline cats attack
the dressmaker's fortress

eager to ascend.
Posted by HawkPunk at 8:15 PM
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