Friday, January 11, 2008

Fair-feathered Friend

you floundering fool,
full of "shit happens"
full of shit in general--

your early-bird steps
never wake me
so adjacent nothing may
always take me
by surprise,

like the scurvy flight of fancy
we turned out to be,
alternately licking and scratching our wounds,
dusty feathers gray with color
scattered like wind-borne plumes
in fleeting symphony
spent quickly to ash.

But we are all feathers,
you and me and craven friends,
all tossed into the ether
to in beauty briefly swirl
and in slumber sweetly curl

around the new-born chick
named destiny, suspended at nest's edge,
poised to plummet.

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