Mudlark

If it picks insects from my back lawn, is it mine?

crow

crow
freefalls
one wingspan
from tree
to cemetery fence
jumps
fence to ground
cocked head
listens for bones

reminiscence

remember when...
you seized my words
stole my tongue?

since then

frozen rain
larva flood crawl
butcher bird
blood love hymn
crows carrion wail
desert winds
casuarinas moan
twenty five
dead moons


waiting...
for the song
words i can't remember
tongue stolen tongue

if i dump it

if i dump it
fresh
blood wet
with pulse
i cant leave it
to bleed
into the page
i must
mop it
clean it
mend it
prop it
before
i drive
the sharpened
goose quill
into flesh
and wait for
screams

Woman Overboard!

DON’T DO

ANYTHING

STUPID

the green stick it note

from my screen

gusted away

out on high seas

mast gone

absorbing danger

through all pores

anything on the agenda

stupid flag

easily hoisted