Thursday, June 25, 2020

JOEL FELIX ~







On Pharmakos Farm


                                     for Tom



Join my song

flossing loopholes

'neath this spiny tree

for time has difficulty

rolling uphill  —


nothing consecutive

on this cloud-initiated mountain:

cluster and

clearing

blue flashes

on the backs of birds



the sound of cinnamon

all you get

till you're picked

on pharmakos farm

no cooling herb

from bloodless flowers

at the bottom of summer's

paper hearts



________________

Joel Felix
Limbs of the Apple Tree Never Die
Verge Books
2013