Kind of Birthday 2014

2014 meets Stephen Crane for a birthday?

Kind of Birthday 2014

What kind of birthday

Do you want

When the sun is red

When crows and vultures

Circle overhead

When every step

Crosses an ocean

Spans a continent

Like you’re Paul Bunyan

With the big axe

And the blue ox?

 

And you answer

What I want and

What I need

Hide beneath

A high sky

Carrion birds

Circling, circling

Waiting for my step

Across oceans and

Continents

Blue ox at my side

Axe in hand

Ready to go

The moment

Bright red sunlight

Guides me there.

 

2014 May

David P Eckert