Dan Sicoli

a sky crunching


frayed clouds / old oak / reach / no touch-backs /

herd / murmurations / south sky / chaos / clock /

wrenched / clots /  neath / fall span / wind / swirl /

open air / fishes / no net / long / reel of /

redemption / terminal / change / rented / future /

fallen / overnight silence / too white / laden /

hidden / not spoken / no footsteps / to / forgive

this sky, warned and worried


the harbor ghost is threatening
the girl with care-free earrings
as the beach line turns rabid with the
thought of an encrypted bottle
washing ashore
and i’m worried the planes
have aborted their destination
a thousand miles or more

on a twin continent
they kneel en masse
facing a coast so brutal
they couldn’t persuade a false god
to claim their altar of atrophy

meanwhile the harbor ghost
evolves into
a monolith
exhibited for sacrifice

she claims that this
bloodletting
is really our tears
hemorrhaging
from these ports of allegiance

what then
if
blood is water
incarcerating our lands

would this cracked ice be an open wound?

Dan Sicoli is getting off the plastics.