then came the skeletons …

slips on barnacled rocks
time for a grazing

crabs in salted pools
scabs from the exotic past

scatters on a dryer land
stand on grassy ground

see the ewe & lamb
hear the song of birds in flight

herds of cows – the people
ordinary’s skirge

grey wojak towns
grainy sand between us

sky in each sigh
shrouded in thick cloudbursts

thirsting for act three
we, the parched players

arch like marbled structures
corpse each stifled line

faded from green
in some autumn woodland shrine

hooded like a monk
in lieu of a rusty key

then came the skeletons
dancing after dawnbreak

bites in the night