John Tustin

CAGE OF BONES

Oh
How she rattled
My cage of bones

Oh
How she abandoned
my windowbox of flowers

Oh
How she decimated
my stammering heart 
with her speaking eyes
and her army of the dead

Oh 
How she transformed
my flesh to cement

Oh 
How my rattled bones
lie bleaching in the sun now -

still the size and shape
of a cell

Flights, Issue Twelve, April 2024