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Renaming the wind

The wagtail ascends invisible stairs trees knuckle into airy sea foam  the moon-ghost has come to collect the sweat-tear frustrations grown by the Sun — we are running into the streets.

Drying-off

Throat-silver ore swallowed, the cormorant conjures his coal-elbowed bone cloak to nightmare-scythe  the pond line, satisfied. 

The Birmingham Bull

The bull stands steampunk  out of a Blake metaphor — ribcage drip chain, rose-gold-brown bolt roaring purple. Moulded into muscle,  metal becomes smoke-born — we search for an aluminum pulse under hubs, scorched shoulder blades.

Sphinx

Anxiety swarms spirit insects circling my mind. You are solid; paws on my clavicle. They part for you. 

After the storm

Clouds with their rainbow tongues lick relief over our skin, butterflies flap ceramic clean in high circles. Time hauls open the iron doors of held breath — jaws loosen with the stretch.

Telling the times

Specks of swallows stamp the summer moon; rolled black tracks of news in snow above a world burning.