Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones by Lucia Perillo

Author:Lucia Perillo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2016-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

Ah, my friends, I could tell you my troubles

but is that why you came? Sure, it stinks here —

the best birding is done in foul-smelling places.

So far I’ve seen the hawk circling, the kingfisher chuckling

before smashing itself breast-first into the muck.

I’ve watched the blue heron standing on just one leg

until it found something half-rotten to spear. Then swallowing

with a toss of its head, as if this were a meal for kings.

Urban Legend

Like many stories, this one begins with Jesus —

well, he sure looks like Jesus, this guy pulled over by the ditch.

Let’s say the tarp has blown off the back of his Isuzu pickup.

Let’s say that the apostles are slowly rising heavenward.

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