Tuesday, April 18, 2006

foR sEAMUS

Summer Heat

cocks wither in the summer heat
necks wrung like washing rags
languid socks of skin and thew

your hair twisted into cornrows
a quarrel of pale yellow sun
tracing the crib of your lips

cats prowl the silage for mice
tails scab with viscera and douse
the summer heat spun into shadow

my uncle’s gore callused hands
chucking necks like slough rags
into the silage trap

I lift the barrows of your skirt
revealing a warrant cat
a severed cockscomb in its mouth

3 comments:

John MacDonald said...

you never cease to amaze me.

Stephen Rowntree said...

Thanks my friend, more reason and motivation to keep at it. Thanks,

S

Anonymous said...

An amazing poem.

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