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Click hereCLEARING THE LAND
By BARUSHKO © 2004
Saber-snap on bone, sere-sharp
white, soap-smooth
glisten, the
skull in the killing field
spear-pointed
up into the mist of this
Indian place, fishing net
cobwebs
over this burial
This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 35,000 poems.
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Yes, Wicked lady, I was just thinking the same thing after reading a piece by smithpeter. This seems so much to be his style. Austere, lean, taut...