Monday, September 28, 2009

I've been studying to have my poetic license renewed, so I will post a series of poems. The first has two versions, because I can't decide which I like the best. The first version has a quality like transliterated haiku, which I like, but the second version flows better:

Embrace

I saw a glove
Stomped into the parking lot
Of an old warehouse

The fingers spread like wings
At first I thought
It was a bird

It grasped the asphalt
To its palm
The way a dead bird
Clutches the earth
To its breast


(Alternate Version)

I saw a glove
Stomped into the parking lot
Of an old warehouse

At first I thought
It was a bird

The fingers spread like wings
And grasped the asphalt
To its palm

The way a dead bird
Clutches the earth
To its breast

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