Blood tree

Dave BontaAnxious

a man coughed up an intact blood clot shaped like a lung passage

sprung fully formed like a god from the lung will you rot back into a travesty of spring

what birds would roost in the untuning forks of your limbs and what would they sing

like a real tree do you yearn to be free of oxygen bronchial to a fault

would you burn

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