Unveiling

In this unveiling: a rain-stabbed
blackbird’s obsidian sigh rises

from meat-fragrant slits
in our speech patterns,

where a way of seeing home,
smeared on walls with elbow blood,

is also a way of nozzling
bird caw to thieved land,

or scissoring fog-lobed night
into crescent moons,

while a bell’s deoxygenated moan,
weeping for its lost reflection,

is hauled away on a horse-drawn hearse.
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