from "Three Demons": Sanki Series I

               Machine

guns

between their brows—

blood flowers bloom.

               Child of summer

dawn—

               tracing

horses in the mud.

               Midnight

               Skylarks

under storm, ferrying

               bodies one

by one.

               Rage

Volcanic

               ash

covered highlands:

               jittery dance

of

the jewel beetle.

Sunflower

               petals,

falling on a

black mass

               of

ants.