"bulbs in the flash pillar"
Brandon Shimoda

bulbs in the flash pillar

burn      wandering ghosts

among manna ash

evaporate through the wires

 

      black as the extent

 

o

 

laid in half

      to life      in an arborescent hall

      fireflies, an aureole

 

o

 

willows bow

the luminal pulse

her faceless head      each coal tress

      glowing

 

o

 

in you

luck runs dry

running for your waiting maid

leaking onto the peony bed