October 04th, 2020

43. antler velvet medicine harvest

covideer
splutter
clutter
clatter across
the concrete
along a river

signiflied
single file
but spliced
displaced
spaced as
like family

rattatattat is
the sound that
they make

get close
to the houses
don’t glide
sidle hide in
the trees

the houses
and their rooms
are for growing
pearls long
into ragged
plumes

along the
river are the
homes
where the
deer hide
the hunters
lay the
children play

along the
river ratta
tat tat
where
the trees
snap

grown
treacherous
from the weight
of nests

mounding
woes
angers
antlers
entangle
untangle
as they grow
ratta tat
tat

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