Saturday, October 15, 2022

DO NOT FEED

by Brett Rutherford

Poets are
the pigeons
of literature.

They cloud about
heroic statues,
take residence

in cathedral spires,
though neither great
nor holy. They are

hungry, always,
needful, nesting
mournful, mating,

more of them
each time a war
memorial springs up,

freighting to
and fro the messages
they claim they get

from the gods themselves.
Arrogant birds!
Pay them no mind!


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