by Suzán Jiván
Man minds his sleeping grandchild
after midnight
while dreaming of pack ice
shrinking
like retreating white-
winged
endangered species
forced
to breed in captivity
in quarantine
hitchhiking on nursery trees
covered
by stone-eating microbes
blighted
by fungi and lichens
along
land-locked highways
Less
and less reliable
at different times
with heavy and light
rains
falling at varying
places
fractured into factions
of attack
unmarked and unmapped
in a monotony of gravel
parsed by tangents
on a sliding scale
nudged here and there
without looking back
at sniffing animals
wearing artifice as armor
while stabbing
a finger skyward
as a classically bona fide
striving as a rapt exercise
with a passive statuette
in prickly defense of morbidity
with pivotal trophies
proudly pointing out the rapture
of song and dance
with a contrarian maverick
from the prevailing underclass
complete with gross misunderstandings
praised as an idyllic cast...
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