The Echo of What Remains Collected Poems of Wanda Lea Brayton
We castigate fluid flows of light,
damn fluctuations of arisen heat,
forgetful of our need for warmth
beneath our ravenous crawl through sunken soil
where flowers will not yet ascend;
fog's fragrance embittered with stone
remits casual whirlpools
upon tendered leaves caught
within imprints of unremembered feet,
an unrehearsal of day's demise.
Hands bereft of wings
sometimes recognize
this emptiness,
and weep;
fragile feathers are stolen
from mere angels
who have turned
glistened eyes
from this keening,
afraid of an inevitable fall
of cobalt laughter
from this punctuated canvas
where paint is spilled as rapidly as blood.
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