i've taught
I've fought
to disparage slights
of lesser carriage
bossed wantons lost
drum diaries sprung
barbed by wires
fierce sore-sighted
pinned down by lines
blanks that catch light
blighted torch ignited
that poems the flies lost
might of flame
the wild kite of hums
rasp of mast
sails between the pasts
and now where I've alighted.