June 2023

nightcrawlers

irrigated rain

coerces them

back to the 

surface

– see them 

going,

hammered

sideways

through fields

bent out of

season; here 

they come –

desperate to 

corner what 

the builders 

rejected; conjoined 

to sneakers, cast, 

pierced & collated

to seed the dreams

of another;

they trawl mud-

ridden thresholds,

the hand casting

the rod pulling 

no punches; it is

right & just

in the wriggling

eyes of heaven

to bury innocent

flesh for 

its own sake;

flesh-filled stomach,

heaven’s maw

gaping, hook

line & sinker