poetix

this time for sure

Half Cocks: Something Strange in Your Neighbourhood

START WRAPPING UP, shut the star-

trap, the containment facility

seething with suckered revenants;

the patriot’s heart or holding pen

that circumscribes the unrelenting dead,

true-born turned alien. Pending extradition

go over prison notes, half-finished

ethics, night-visiting songs; even the blazing

Thames no earthly obstacle to love.