Skeleton Elegiac
Adam Strauss
Gadgetry, degage me!
Daggonit, engage three
Leopards in the activity
Of eating my heart—wee!
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Ormolu in its outré inscape eviscerates
Corn which refuses to form a field.
Birds peck. Mice run. Snakes eat.
Sun warms cold blood.
Marrow there—now—is a freezing mausoleum.
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The cold bones burn
Thus there's no
Doubt one has nerves.
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Adam Strauss has work out in Switchback, Fence, and The Colorado Review, as well as pieces forthcoming in Upstairs At Duroc and Parthenon West Review.