Kingbird-dom

[Steve]

--Blackbird
singing across the highway
-- ebony sage
plastered against my windshield

In my rearview---
A lifeless dark clod
Falls---
Where is Lazarus? (beaked and winged
A strange form of
Earthly angel)
Will you not wake and
Rustle and stretch out into the sky?

And feathered fella
Unaware of the pathetic fearful mortal
Carelessly dragging itself through your
KINGDOM—
Kingdom Come-
Kingbird-dom
Birddha Comes—
Pulling lilac’s hair &
Pinching tulip’s nipples
Just to cause a ripple
In the vast nothingness of the world
And call it Love,
You set flight.
O’, And I, with my
Dashboard Buddha &
Incense stained tongue,
But days ago begged for my
Shoulder blades to open up into
My Heaven Wings so I may soar
Along side of them.

But look!
I strike down my brother as hard as Cain
And I see—
Small body turn still as glass
Fallfloat like a windswooped
Plastic bag.
Forever, bird caught in wind tunnel
Is like
Butterfly frozen in mild breeze
Convulsing like a diseased old man dancing
Against my windshield.

I lose all hope as sacred life more
Than jesus rises no more than a
Clomp of dirt.