~REM~Steel Bird~

By WordWulf, 15th Jan 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/pe9mjj4r/
Posted in Wikinut>Writing>Poetry

I am a brick
I am a chimney
I am a church
I am a watchtower
I am a sepulcher
I am a step of man
I am a damned liar
I am a memory
I am your Children’s Children
We are a fear of haunting

~REM~Steel Bird~

REM~Steel Bird

I am a brick
lain down easy
flat on the bottom
Mortar my surrounds
Smother my face in gray dust
Wear me ‘cross centuries
Spall my body with your killing guns

I am a chimney
open end of a lonely room
Heat divides my breath
I am, my throat, a dragon
Bend you over, clap your hands
Spill your witch’s brew on me
Drown me in a storm of sorrow

I am a church
where People gather Gods
Sit and sing my belly
Read your Book of Numbers
Consecrate my web of flesh
Cry unto the face of me
Weave me in your cloak of Word

I am a watchtower
rifles thrust into my eyes
become windows of doom
Killing ground, my surrounds
make me cold, invincible
Bathe me in a wash of blood
Condemn, search and destroy me

I am a sepulcher
a dry wind blowing through
an onion skin of flesh
wandering echo, mute chorus
cracks in the wall
where worms and dry rot
may reach out to feed

I am a step of man
upon the face of stone
within the heat of the fire
The House of God resides
where I lay me down
where I lift me up
dark wing and ransomed flesh

I am a damned liar
a brick fallen from the wall
lain in a latrine of Angels
I kiss their Angelic ass
make dead dreams of far halo
a rush of wind against the glass
helicopter in the yard

I am a memory
random events yet unhappened
photo negative of Earth on fire
a drowning dinosaur lake
where freedom goes to die
a slap in the face of life
gasoline and a barrel of blood

I am your Children’s Children
We are a fear of haunting
dim dreams of naked flesh
a charred bone to gnaw on
brother, sister, friend?
No, it’s the old man’s story
Ha ha! It’s the old man’s bones!

Meet the author

WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)