four and twenty hours out
of a rich (and broken) love
riding churning waters
and lightning undulating
around one corner
after another they were
confident as blackbirds
then demanding as crows
words alone could unravel
their well-tangled skein
© 2020, by Hannah Six
Image: Winslow Homer, Red-winged blackbirds (1886),
watercolor, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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