Fine Lines

" Fine Lines "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Fine lines
citing signs
of " The Sweet
By-and-By "
while crowing
'bout past strikes
as surface-to-air
streaks of white
smoldering
through the sky
for a time

scoffing at such ideas
of having such reach
like blighted expertise
on hempseed
and prickly poppies
for scabies and colic
turning toxic

hobbling extreme
left-and-right wings
despite clear-cutting
"weedle-weedle
weedle-weedle
weedle-weedle"
mimicking
hawk species
noisy shrieks

oak and beech
brooding females
twigs lichens
paper and string
"drink-your-tea
drink-your-tea
drink-your-teeeee!"
vulnerable to poisoning
hanging on forks of trees...