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brambles roll through
. . . . . . . your barricade
. . . . . . . . . . . of endless words
blown between lines
. . . . . . crashing against punctuation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . marks
circling around stanzas
. . . . . . . . . settling
. . . . into your puddles
. . . . . . . . . . . of muck and sand
. . . . that you fondly call
. . . . . . your love
burying your sharp tiny declensions
into the small of my back
flooding my verbs
. . . . . . . with my own bloodied adjectives
. . . flashing nouns
. . . in a picket of yestertense
. . . . . . . . . . . . sprinkling adverbs and
. . . . . . . . . modifiers on the pavement
. . . . . grinding them into the ground
. . . . with heavy footed
accusations
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