Corpses
rheumatic gray
fingers of birches
brush strokes
into a pearl sky
dark birds
leaping branches
like ladders
not touching ground
foot prints
foraging
through the snow over
buried roots
hibernating fists
in a stand
of oak
caskets.
rheumatic gray
fingers of birches
brush strokes
into a pearl sky
dark birds
leaping branches
like ladders
not touching ground
foot prints
foraging
through the snow over
buried roots
hibernating fists
in a stand
of oak
caskets.