Death Rattle Aubade
Terminal respiratory secretions or hoof-time of vanishment?
A baby rattle within her pharynx resembling a mirrored honey dipper see-sawing
Visceral beans knocking prescience or herd of ancient Podolic cattle silver & stampeding in - verse?
Riverine throat She is guided now by her own salival rhythm Oar-chestrating a coda
What is the etymology of a river? Dew-drop born She is gondola-shaped in death
A percussive snake Her lopsided spine buoyant & blooming
From placental Black Forest (O glucose of oak) To Black Sea galloping toward
aftermath I hear her
O lyre-like horns
What is the osteometric record of migratory music?
I craft a harmonica from pneumatic swan-skeletons
Stethoscopic I listen for syllabic palpitations I see you I saw you
What goes up in sound must come down in silence
She who was with us in dusk is by dawn no longer
Death’s corridor is a corn poppy meadow where a chord of Danubian meadow vipers becomes—
A triangular welcome rug An ancestral tambourine An unspooling mother tongue