Michael S. Begnal
Silver Ghosts
Silver ghosts gleaming in the meadow
like butterflies
with razorblade wings
sniffing for pollen
pink as pure blow—
thereof,
and more,
the poet will sing
Like butterflies with razorblade wings,
slash the clouds into bloody twilight
(thereof, also, the poet must sing),
once again suck the air of black night
Slash the clouds
into bloody twilight,
celebrate all the dead in their graves,
once again breathe the air of black night—
poems come, furious,
in light-waves
Celebrate
all the dead in their graves,
sniffing for pollen pink as pure blow,
poems come, furious, in light-waves:
silver ghosts,
gleaming in the meadow
Michael S. Begnal is the author of three poetry collections: Ancestor Worship (Salmon, 2007), Mercury, the Dime (Six Gallery Press, 2005), and The Lakes of Coma (Six Gallery Press, 2003). He is published in the anthology Breaking the Skin: New Irish Poetry (Black Mountain Press, 2002).
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