Red Wing colors

TWIN WINGS

Sun through winter clouds, light

grays, pale blues...

Red Wing colors –

Mississippi stoneware (molded tight).

The heavy clay, churned by the river.

Earth forms distend,

disintegrate... days end,

begin... arrows in a quiver

of darkness.  Black Sea, cold, dead.

Salt lashing the eyes,

unseeing eyes – Oedipus

in his beast maze (Minotaur Ed).

Bruegel with his traps & nets.

Sardonic Injun Joe.

Taut lips of Little Crow.

To the bottomland we go, eaglets –

where Janus wrestles in the ice

with icon of his father.

Horned (narwhal weather).

Stars nest in a pair of dice.

High in stretched vaults of shade

stone elms lean down

over a golden corn-

maze (Ariadne made).

Light-roping constellations chant

reunion, reconcilement –

on twin wings of prairie-tent

coulombe (your ghostly complement).

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