GOATSPEAK

by Jerrod E. Bohn

 

bastard rhythm-jigs’ cloven hooves scatter
earth song       
                              beat hearth pulse        
                                                                        bleat

turtledoves with fire tongues’ sharpened
fork-lick brambles                  
                              thorn whips
and throw blood on pine trees                       
                                                                        stomp

grape skins        juice-stained knees’
buckle bow     
                              snap syllables             
                                                                        pop
pelvis
                              pile another palm frond on the fire

that lyre too       string-gap music’s flames
                              aspire to source          
                              inspire exaltations ex-
                              halations

horned hallucinations               wallflower
don’t stand
                              wallflower                   dance

hand-hoof bobbing to huff-huff bone-drums
               garbled warblers’ invocations
                              battered bashful
                              muse                             defrock
                                                                      suck
               twine-kinked beard                 fuck

 

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