The root-tune of our being being this nightsweltering in the boybunks.
Owl-absonant sensesurround of sweatshine and moonklieginsomnia both.
The mustangy (shin-shank) clash of us hopped-upspiral-eyed on sun-tea and the sugars.
« en garde your ownself you I could kill you again easy »
Unsweet unsmotherable systole-diastole (and back again)(and so forth)
of the instigator v. the aggravoked; unbridleable-arterial
Brotherbeat
of kick-poke (and pester-choke and parry) play at play.
Copyright © 2025 by Atsuro Riley. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on August 28, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.
