Seth Copeland
from Sequence for Wichita Flowers
Totem
votive feathers off a thunderbird
who thrashed till we felt guilty
about taking out
our people’s very symbol
O soft coital merchant
Thou art detaining me.
Seth Copeland is an English graduate of Cameron University and lives with his wife in Lawton, Oklahoma. His prior work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brickplight, Menacing Hedge and E•ratio. His first book, Diviner’s Whiskey, will be coming out this winter.
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from Sequence for Wichita Flowers
(1) pitcher’s clematis brooding goth bat leaves—open palms, kris daggers, green high collars for capes : blooms—damson phantasmagoria, bowed ghouls, capuchin prayers muttered in lisped latin ranunculaceae relinquere in mare mortuum tuum, filii tui pascunt beyond them static ribcages of broken tree limbs noisy hairs, thick and gray felled by lightning or old age, leaving room for roots in rain to soak and suck and effervesce chlorophyll through sticky veins and channels until the hanging metallic hunches burst out and begin their sulking shameful posture I see them closest to the valley taking in flying rain drooped in marshy outskirts of the ledges strewn with mine tailings and shale.
Totem
votive feathers off a thunderbird
who thrashed till we felt guilty
about taking out
our people’s very symbol
O soft coital merchant
Thou art detaining me.
Seth Copeland is an English graduate of Cameron University and lives with his wife in Lawton, Oklahoma. His prior work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brickplight, Menacing Hedge and E•ratio. His first book, Diviner’s Whiskey, will be coming out this winter.
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