(on chrome yellow background with daisy)
Stephen Alexander 2017
You know what it is to die alone,
Baby bird!
To have fallen from the nest, unfledged,
Dragon-faced and flipper-winged.
Once your tiny beak-mouth chirruped
With bold reptile defiance, indomitable.
Now maggots rend your unfeathered flesh.
Baby bird!
To have fallen from the nest, unfledged,
Dragon-faced and flipper-winged.
Once your tiny beak-mouth chirruped
With bold reptile defiance, indomitable.
Now maggots rend your unfeathered flesh.
Is that a kleine Aster I see?
ReplyDeleteDanke für die Anspielung auf Gottfried Benn - but that's a little daisy (and I was sort of writing in the manner of Lawrence).
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