A poem about a man trampled
by starlight, his ropes creaking.
The man as a red berry crushed
between god-teeth, a blood-fat flea,
his bones carved into dice, man-guts
fluttering like flowery ribbons, the
Black Lord’s soul-clamps straining
to be purposeful, flesh creeping as
they opened up his skull that night,
the hard-as-diamond cranium, with
a titanium-coated handsaw. Do you
know that taste, our disappointment?
Here I am, the man insists,
more of a threat than an answer.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician currently residing on Salt Spring Island BC, is a Pushcart nominee with over a thousand poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books are ‘The So-Called Sonnets (Silenced Press), ‘An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy’ (Cawing Crow Press) and ‘Like As If” (Pskis Porch), all available via Amazon.