you wake the
morning find
its seeds in
your palm
now you must
scrape the dust
from rivers of
sinew
crowned like
maples held
fast to the sky
still
its seeds
remain out of
reach
you scratch
pockets of fat
lined gold
corvid beak
finger surging
rasping on
muscle
marked with
salmon scale
still
the gift is
untouched
so you keep it
clench your
fist around the
worm trying
to keep it
still
Daniel J Flosi is an apparition living in a half acre coffin within the township of Rock Island, IL between the V of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers.