a ready cleaver

a ready cleaver,
left at the ready

singing the margin
of a sunbath

Live again
pretty kid
hiding in a tree
in the middle of the street

Live again, sun bath,
metrically cut
to the standards of the Book,

writing,
“step on my neck”,
craning at the clash
of red-blooded clans,

singeing the margin,
hiding in the margin,
cleaving the sun

Live again, kid