Best Poems Written by Duncan Wagner

Who Knows

where the branches go 
return to the voices
that bitter inner verse 
dressed in birds

I know now those roots 
I know now where lovers die 
Who knows where the branches go 
to song to heart to some cruel universe

where no life turns, no beast pretends
a cage of mothers –  a cry of death
Branches sway –  Branches night
swing off into a color of sticks or sound

she awaits my bird my tiny wing
from our ancestry of none our null dream 
to lie awake to die apart
oh soundless fury pray for me

I've done none, I've none
but the wind to carry me under 
carry me away

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