Tuesday, January 13, 2009

HARVEST

by SMSmith

Iron locusts
Belching black exhaustion
Round on round
To gorge upon
The gilt of autumn.

Round on round
To pour out ripe September.

Round on round
Spewing dry-rowed chaff
For other teeth
To glean
Concentric weals
Into ingots of hollow gold.

Round on round
From dawn
To crew-cut dawn
Swallowing
Disgorging
Art
Essence
Season
Similitude.

Round on round
Layering strata
To invisible strata
Of fruits and days
Too soon
Forgot.

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