Sunday, October 24, 2010

Collar.

Pepper pigeons, 'cross the windowsill
'neath the shallow cries, of cigarettes,
of playful synonyms.

Them, the wind scolds,
she reprimands impatience,
murdering writer's delight,
in wisdom - its seldom vengeance.

Her tiptoe to their temper, teasing;
deriding these wicked rhymes,
acute in perspective, conscience slaying mine.

Have they soared away?
In diffidence, they always did,
mocking gratis admiration,
in a way these hands have bled.

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