Weight

Kevin  LeMaster

 

for Marcia 1972-2021

Your spirit emerges from
whiskey amber, broken glass.

the twisted gray metal
frame of your repose

cannot contain your
soul any longer.

those last few minutes,
a mosaic of broken bone

and flesh silhouette the road

like a beautifully injured bird
rising up and flying south

before Winter could arrive, wings
broken over a red blooming sky.

 

 

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Kevin LeMaster lives in South Shore, Kentucky. His poems have been found at SheilaNaGig online, Heartwood Literary Review, The Slipstream, Triggerfish Critical Review, Route 7 Review, West Trade Review, The Big Window Review, Santa Clara Review and others.