A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

typical hairy biped

I have two wings on fire
imaginary thankfully
spreading from the sides
of my head, instead of
my back, instead of
a halo,
and also

a halo cocked
at a rakish angel

whose gold harp lacks
half the strings.
So I told her, take mine.

Heartstrings!
Now she gives
them a pluck, strum,
running arpeggios,
glissando cascades,
and of course

I can't feel them
directly anymore

(torn out)

but when she plays?
I can hear the places
they used to tug.

It's amazing how sound
can make feeling

ugh

sometimes ugh
can be deeply,
gloriously
dug

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