Showing posts with label Ancillary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancillary. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

ancillary



ancillary

salt marshes and swamps make up the marginal
landscape bed of rose colored grasses, dried for
a season, never to mend. theres no harbor in the
nuclear forest; we twist round the yielding path
to avoid madonnas and child in the web-lace,
decks the boughs. theres armadillos happening
by, and gators of all sizes, some small as a
decent winter scarf.

from great distances i try to make out birds
models, based on size, and just how they fly.
a blue heron turns out to be a mature American
bald eagle, cows me and a herd of ibis takes
off from the oaks in chorus; i am jerked awake
by a jewel backed thumb tip sized ancillary
frogs got a pretty narrow existence.

Monday, July 20, 2015

Ancillary



Ancillary

salmarshes and swamps make up the marginal
landscape like it was a bed of rose colored
grasses, dried for a season, never to mend.

theres no harbor in the nuclear forest; we twist
round the yielding path to avoid madonnas and
child in the web lace decks the boughs. theres
armadillos happening by, and gators of all sizes,
some small as a decent winter scarf.

from great distances i try to make out birds
models, based on size and just how they fly.
a blue heron turns out to be a mature American
bald eagle, cows me and a herd of ibis takes
off from the oaks in chorus; i am jerked awake
by a jewel backed thumb tip sized ancillary
frogs got a pretty narrow existence.