SHANNA COMPTON


                                     



BARREN OF PINES




Inchoate       the idea that I'll have
something       to put down

to approximate the perfume
of eucalyptus       my sludgy operations

I'm a zoo subsumed       under a mudslide
A tossed trio of ships       rising in inkwell illustration

awash in bounced wavelight       Everything major
but the times I catch it       Seldom the intensity

of the rescue       a matchhead igniting
on the eighth       or ninth strike

If I could build a city       or thread a pasture with grasses
I'd admit I love the city       but confess

I love the grasses more       where thunder storms
rains flash       kindling at the ready

& here I go       pining for the end








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