a blue coraled night
saw me away
the catch in my throat
bagged up with my bones
in a care lined sack
I watched steel birds
cry their farewells to the
naked amber streets
of my sugar grimed
balm of a city
it’s resonant hum
my ambient song
they took this fledgling
to disappearing shores
and a stretch of sea
that was just
a pig with wings
until the wind rushed in
and pulled me away
paulhp poetry 