51 Gone Years


51 gone years, holes of life that yawn

stretching grey matter like scraps of first car

first love, first kiss, first poem, electric dawn

seen as ravens, jays, and crows sing a bar

of fight songs in flight, flexing their graphite

throats and bright winged bodies hoping for luck

with dull feathered bodied kindred, polite

and contrite, a drake flaps a wing, a duck

on his mind . . . seeking to fornicate

prodding primal places to solicit

with old moves

songs that shout propogate

new born eggs of instinct . . .life is illicit.


51 gone years burn in the dawn's pause

First kiss, first love, a new life and first cause.

Stephen Morse 1996