Human Tissue


would as I do
thought inside faces
happening, not peacefully,
in old trees

much like the water
very high and green
their words running around
like small things

men born spiders
and ready as a morning web

merging

Lawrence Upton

Lawrence Upton is a poet, graphic artist and sound artist, currently directing Writers Forum. His latest publication is Memory Fictions (Argotist Ebooks).

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