Skeleton
I envy your clattering ivory
armature, spare elegant
collection
of slender reed and knobby
rolling dice,
nothing more than
racketing conveyance
indifferently assembled;
rainy day
distraction for a brooding
prodigy
given to florid red rages
and spare
motes of grace, set aside
and forgotten
with the last hank of
elastic gristle
glued down, off-hand snapping
jolt of juice to
animate His rattletrap contraption,
picket fence to cage howling
broken hearts,
chipped china bowl
brimming with a confused
stew chock full of hubris and
eternal
light, sly grinning marionette,
punch line
carried off by wind through
your empty rooms.
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