American Dreams
It’s a time to be fresh,
to be plucked wriggling
out of a shining
land or sea,
a fresh humanity,
still moon-ray buckled
and gold,
no evidence
of city, and crap-house crud.
America, you can do this.
I am a being from the old,
I am from the end times,
my transfiguration
is your promise
our manifest destiny.
It’s not too late,
wipe your dirty face America.
I am ready,
ready to soar
out of a landfill
like a prismatic vulture,
my naked head
newly scrubbed
of old blood.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2019
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