Tag: rookery
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rookery by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (Orion’s Belt Poetry – August 2024)
they came in droves in cyclones and rainfall, in windstorms and pelting hail each icy rock— heavenfall— a tiny drone delicate wings filigree work, they lay inert like cicada broods— emerging mating and death but it seemed backwards their inertness came to life so it went— death mating emergence they arrived lifeless but somehow buffeted…