Monday, February 8, 2010

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