Vagabond

from Red Wasp by Duchess

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the vicious ink ribbon vagabond wades
into the waves of the daydream page
and drinks the foam from the silent haze
till he feels the hunger
of 21 years without a single line
that could hook a vowel to a rhyme
without stuttering like a broken neon sign
but what does it matter?

When the prairie fire tattooed typewriter teeth
pulled the pommegranet petals from the poisoned streets
he felt a flash of fevered floods flutter beneath his feet
like feathers of water
and how the world shook from the butterfly bells
that rang out like lavender shrapnel shells
and echoed in a electric arabesque swell
of switchblade letters

Now the blood-clots vibrate like bright pillars
of light bulb vertebrae thunderous rivers
and the tongue spills out droplets of sunflowers
upon the pulsating skin
and now every hour is a bower of sparrows
that carries in the fragments of pastel yellows
and burrows it into the lilac marrow
like blood into a violin

The vicious ink ribbon vagabond wades
into the waves of the daydream page
and drinks the foam from the silent haze
till he feels no hunger
and those 21 years without a single line
will vanish as each vowel turns into a rhyme
that trembles in awe like a broken neon sign
but does it really matter?

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from Red Wasp, released November 24, 2012

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