Sunday, November 13, 2011

Poet in a Bottle


Watch him molt, every day crawling
From successive skins shed as husks,
Isinglass exoskeletons,
Colorless and dry to the touch.

Oh look, he seems to be struggling
With yesterday's skin. There's some left,
An itching, irritating scrap
He just wants to get off his chest.

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