We Be Ludere

The root-tune of our being being this nightsweltering in the boybunks.

 

Owl-absonant sensesurround of sweatshine and moonklieg insomnia both.

 

The mustangy (shin-shank) clash of us hopped-up spiral-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.