Joy for Life

Released in a Thousand Symphonies

BC, Canada — author’s pic

Inspired by Vixen Lea’s Fossils

We can pant across the clay
with the piss-ants
and pluck thorns from our palms
bleeding rivers
over the hard-packed earth;

I don’t want another poem
facing mortality.

I want the joy for life screamed
from the midst of thick forests
packed with…