Diamond In the Rough

 


Slither invitation,
diamond-cut
vendettas.


Sellswords carve
         carnival sideshow
    smiles


darting buttress
eyes commence
a lust for                                   fire
sings the bird:


conjecture cockfights
a finer company~
requisite quisling
dangles headfirst~


boiling leather
weathers
a tomb of
elbow room.


Laugh & dream
of head & hole.


Billed hourly
in barb wire
      peckerwood


redfist beseeching
a blacktongue ballast.


Heavy machines
groan & crimp.


Bitchslap overlord
corking brain.


Erstwhile dreams
        eye razor
   to throat…

slithering treacherous,
a diamond-cut
vendetta.