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littlebirdie · 4318 days ago · link · · parent · post: I'm a crummy poet, but I'm writing a poem a day for 2013
poem for January 9 not my new future The fractal twists of nature
give way to helixes
made of miters and rhomboids,
cool futuristic efficient. Mice and ants
just roving boxes with legs,
and birds no color at all
but transparent angle wind,
their scattered remains
pin-pricked and encased
under beveled glass. Can you imagine this place
wrapped in parallel cellophane,
tied with cut diamond ribbon? I can’t find a curve outside
the salt water trail
from cheek to thigh. The easy crescent of my mother
winks from a rectangular mirror.