Angel Free: A Poem

Ask Flash Battery image by Joe Haput CC BY

Angel Free

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

For Christopher

Taps the jaybird on the ground:
Hollow sound. Hollow sound.
Taps the jaybird on the tree:
Owlings scree! Owlings scree!
Taps the jaybird on your head:
Is he dead? Is he dead?

Late the boaters brought you home,
In the foam. In the foam.
To a bed on shady turf:
Pounds the s…