Autoclave

The vertebrae break.

----------In the distance, a vibrato.

Not so much water over

the dam but

----------a whoosh

-------------------of wings approaching.


Women flying in the shape of a V.


Forests falling

---------from the dark of their wombs.


Witches will show you how

-----------to grind together bones.


But come late, after sun

-------------burnt nipples and caramel skin


where yaw marks singe the road.