Thursday, 22 August 2024

Oscillate Wildly

 

Oscillate Wildly

 

Five wires stringing heaven's

cross-stitched skies

and Mozart’s manuscript

is empty of  magpie crotchets,

but one autarkic, swinging

in four fifths of stillness.

Possibly he departed late,

watched wily from the gate's

old rust slung bars, curious.

No soft winds or breeze

singing brings bridges,

wooden poles clutch ridges,

and in oscillations from far

summons rhymes of Witchita.

What is or was cannot be known,

and so lights no fires,

or else this bird has flown.


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