Of Blessings Unpieced

The study of your reaped stay unfurls and fails rise;
negated hues, once glimpsed, sing passage...

As our ailing face eludes anneal,

name accents movement and shy.

O sagging symmetry

to skin stanza of your rejoinder's immensity

and ceasing bloom...

Of hours' amble,

shall this pleat salvage?
As eyne endeavor plea and tally...


© Christopher Brandon Lancaster

The Finishing of Owl's Talon

Of the every winding, I am parted

Of plot and way, upon sown hours' insistence of day,
halt of time as muted sails thicken to diapason.

Held codas cease to render shape;
the stuttered reticence of their failing curve choirs still

To place body
to revise hull.

Over fragiled density
this crescentic weight lifts let of the final lonesome
and the exiled hands paraphrase loss.


© Christopher Brandon Lancaster