Between You, Me, Crow and Lamppost Summer decays with cloying sweetness — Autumn's panoply of color and harvest suspended in midair. Like weeds the people are rising through concrete gathering, in spite of Empire's wooden street barricades. In the parking lot a crow atop a lamppost cawing Earth wisdoms. Bitter taste of Somalia on the breeze — Sunday and we're just sitting, in the backseat a bag of groceries. Watching the clouds move fast across the blue sky dizzy . . . he calls me back, crow atop the lamppost cawing Earth wisdoms. In the parking lot like weeds the people are rising through concrete. False institutions crumbling as insects go wild amidst a compost heap. Such cloying sweetness sitting here listening caw caw caw caw caw

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small press publisher and Turtle Islander. You can contact him via his literary website.

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