Mechanical Birds

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Narrow bridges
turn upward metal smoke plumes
plumas

or

traveling over years
ago near zero
applications
suitable
to skin here,

at once
in a discus belly
of kinder,
gentler faces


in the fire pillar of their bodies
a flesh fly, a city scraper

or

birth defect between webbed feet:
mom-and-pop stores
start from here
then branch out
to nothing

train stations
conductors
amongst the lone
misplaced advertisements
slip

on guano wings
acid rain
terminal
toward

azure Skyy
bottles