I am wearing heavy feathers
with the gaze of the day lit to my backside.
A rotisserie routine,
hot with punishment and prayer.
Prayer for punishment,
punishment for prayer.
Answers from a sky beaded in blue birds,
upon gods supposed pretty blue fabric.
Crowned crows and drowned geese barking their bird songs.
Like god’s dog, a dog’s god.
Feedback fed back to my waterproof back.
Backed by waterproofed ears.
No water, no proof.
Not even of the air.
Myself, essential as an appendix,
wise as a wisdom tooth.
A modern sticky taste of evolutionary distaste.
An undriven itch paraded down a forked road.
Forked, ******;
spooned and knifed.
I ask silver why,
silver when?
All it knows is where,
the non knowing of a mouth.
Only a stabbed spoonfed reflection,
down a downed throat.
Only, gagged.
Only, only, only.
One and only, twice and only, third and only.
Words like a modern car,
broken as modern routine,
breaking like the century,
braking on my tired back.
Treaded wrong,
treaded right in the in between spot.
Stubborn and beige as the day.
Shining with sheen of a hydrophobe,
a homophone,
a synonym.
Silver seal skin,
sealed in,
sealed out.
Worn all worn over unmatched elbows dripping dropped drops.
Pointed pens drawing the ink down from my cupped jaw.
Southern drawn tears
written on a northern face.
Tearing torn words on the papered table,
cornered into torn corners,
soiling the bread on the table.
The bacon,
this belly fat.
Migrations rations.
A seasoning.
Sprinting, flying flavors
chased to the next season.
Only less of a lesson when schools out, only schools never leave school.
Schools make students,
and fish,
and pheasants,
and flies,
and men.
This ancient ill-working work.
Same working sons under the same working sun.
Always an agent,
always a pharaoh.
Concealing the pyramids,
stealing cerulean.
Never claimed,
never claimed to claim.
But claimed clams
and bitten birds,
spun on a spit and spat on;
We all are
all we are.
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