Nests



The morning dew coats
paper-thin eggs nestled safe
in thicket,
and down on the south end of heaven
blankets warm
are peeled aside.

He watches the curtain play
across the shadows that jerk,
then slither, into
ripped wallpaper edges.

He's alone in the beginning,
alone in the end, left
only with the ache of a limb long ago cut off.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXXXX XXXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 318
Words 60
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 3

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