Friday, July 9, 2010

SQUALL

black spider storm
marauds in from the north
tarantulating the sky with its arms

neighbors stacking children in for the winter

buckets set out
frothing red under luminous trees

I hollow a spot in my brain
to receive your words
you don't call and I fall asleep

at midnight rain fills the hole


2 comments:

  1. oooo ickkkkk

    what's in the buckets?! why didn't she call? (rhetorical questions)

    love the image of stacked up children - like live mummies.

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  2. Children burn pretty well if they are sufficiently dried out.

    Who says its a "she"? That's just a rhetorical question too. Thanks Berta

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