Truffles and Treasures
Mankind seems a fraction lost
chasing truffles and treasures
through the sawdust of his mind.
Beating back wild hogs
in the backwaters of temptations
as emerald jacket croakers
play hide and seek
with cattails swaying back and forth
through their mossy incarnations.
Nobody cares to sacrifice amidst the briar
to walk in the steel toed heartache of another.
...nobody yearns to meet the silky eye of God
until they crack another wishbone
against the iron vein of a Capricorn sky.
What mankind didn't know
was that the wild hog horde
unearthed the truffles and treasures...
a lifetime and a half ago.
the dream drifting far away from heaven.
on a coal train destined toward hell.
In the aftermath
a trinity of violet butterflies
hovers over a pile of wild hog scat
beating to the throbbing of
what always was and
what could have been.
Copyright © Anthony Biaanco | Year Posted 2024
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