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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.

Sprout electric

Metal petrichor, fresh coffee soil. Seedlings thrust thunder-strong into smirking rain — earth's rumbling belly pleads  for more.

He rises

Fire-fresh, fangs for toes, the diurnal amber raptor scatters crow confetti, pigeon constellations, with stern, solemn, brow.