wicker man

abstract, cycle, death, metaphor, mythic, nature, offering, poetry, process, ritual, sentence, sonnets, traces

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first bits

then fragments

fall away

like branches

on fire

crack off

until

wholly ash

 

which wind then

wisps to air

adrift

incorporeal

a spirit singing

in each breath

 

(August 9, 2018)

 

 

 

 

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I am a poet and a teacher living in central Texas. I attended The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English.

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