A 10
Swoop low to swim & snoop, steel jackdaw.
Lazy, slothful, stooping at stalling; spy to kill.
Snub nose blunt, brutal, primal, pick a pang
primed w. pincushion & pixel high revolution;
Split tail fins smith reclining summer sky inclement,
no stop & don’t need grounding w.
wings stubby as if amputated
swill the residual taper of spent fuel
scouring & tainting air’s transparency like a film developing...
Oil drum engines hump the body like hollow amplexus
It crops chimneys, calculating, cold air companion.
Barrels down by branches, breathing a breeze aflame.
Interlopes upon & slips sly into timid suburbs
W. myths of a warthog cough
Stunning to a sizzling stop & stall
& stories of muzzles melting
under too-long a triggering...
Home flight epic & homage to frantic
fingerly flakked fuselage falls to pieces
but no stop till stories tickle the swine;
Different projectiles, different wars of kinds & in kind.
I know what it is to be spectating.
That black sky sure came alive w. tracer friends.
I know this fear so fascinating.
A bullet so phallic.
Fuck your air if I don’t breathe it.
I can see the pilot
(Can see your insular instant)
(the refugees’ road knew it had to boil)
Can see me.
So don’t you wait for me
land.
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