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