Saturday, September 11, 2021

today's poem - "pterodactyl sunset'

pterodactyl sunset

 

along sunset arcs shadowless in falling sun

raptors strafe and stratify serial skies and level shores

death winging for blinded clawfeet and pincers

upflipped fish and incidental carrion                      

 

down orange

                         tangerine

                                            bronze

swollen layered sky sheets deathsmells

seep leather-winged

 

as scavengers swoop and plunge

striking sharply

colored feathers with yellow claws

dark shine the predator eyes

                                 alarming shrieks

reverberate flowers of sensation

crustaceans scramble scurry and claw sand

sizzling swamp air whirlingly subsides

slowly cools into trembling night

 

opportunistic natural elements modify dying

cycles of weather erosion; explosions

brief extra-solar events and geology conspire

in haplessly struggling success and failure

rising and falling divergent fatal terra life

for sunset marauders to survey

 

 

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