Arid Speech

By lupus tenebrae

Your arid speech, like
swan-song borne aloft
on a summer breeze,

shards of fractured May
peer through the mirror
of your muddied wings

as the whole of your
frailty clambers
clumsy up shade trees;

flight-ready, sunset-
bound and gifted with
a momentary grace.

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Copyright 2016 lupus tenebrae
Published on Wednesday, June 8, 2016.     Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

Written at the height of the cicada population, and their deafening yet pleasant song
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  • NikesRain On Thursday, June 9, 2016, NikesRain (1240)By person wrote:

    Softly felt, for me anyway. Smooth and flowing with just the right tempo. For the cacophony of sound they can rise to, this was more lyric, more dreamy. Lovely

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