hang like green grapes
beneath Congress Street Bridge
at dusk
they drop
gulp air
and jettison
guano
their numbers
paint the sky
black
they spread
like treacle
through ebony
night
on Bollingen Island
fox bats
fall free
under ebon
limbs
at dusk
they eat
pomegranates
with simian hands
at dawn they sleep
suspended
swaying
in sour wind
About Me
- kwh
- is the author of four novels, "Vogel Flies South," "Vogel and the White Bull," "Cave Gossip, and "Grimoire of Stone: A Romance of Water;" and two books of poetry, "Petroglyphs," and "Sea-Snails on a Black Chow’s Tongue or, a Castaway’s Poems in a Bottle." He divides his time between Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Dallas, Texas. In 2009, his portal fantasy novel, "Okeanus," was a semi-finalist in the Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough novel contest. He is currently writing short stories set in an alternate history, code-named: La Ciudad, and working on a new series. The first novel, "The Grimoire of Stone," is finished and available from Amazon.com. His next novel "Attis Chapel" is a Heinleinian space opera with Lovecraftian motifs. Set in his La Ciudad series, it further develops the background begun in "Grimoire of Stone."