Monday, August 29, 2022

death perched on my naked shoulders

a hibernating loneliness

put to sleep by warm hands by warm voices awakes from slumber into a new existence one without fear nor hope

a green poem breaks out of its shell made of time staining a holystoned tongue yet to be unbearably spoken 

and death perched  on my naked shoulders just like a blackbird wouldn't clawing mortal flesh until it bled

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