Palace of Reptiles: A Sampler

from Palace of Reptiles

Maggie O’Sullivan

BIRTH PALETTE

Lizard air lichens ivy driven urchin’s pry to a pounce.
Scribbled terrestrial traor, the paw actions tainy blee
scoa, blue scog. In eat, gashed harmonica stresses to
skull icon, jigged but shower, Crushtative bundles,
Doe, Owl, the Hare mantled in a planetary pivot.
Vulture-Jar, dragonfly & waterbeetle are we,
each veil of the glide species.

Sheer Shoe-Shoe darks, Weem Cyclicity,
Threads & Wisps.
Yesterday’s loaf soaks on the spindle,
sky blue large the sea’s purple Octopi bickerings
re-in-indigo dozens indignant.
Options Falter.
Rodent, Bat Swing Mare-O-Crow-O-Crane
Midscales cache,
untilled kestrels carded,
ancestrous to a Song.

Earth scalded, wired lame.
Yew Hung Abbatoir Voltages.

Wouldja Pouches, sun crawl. Snail, Serpent,
Wren stroke of this tiny wobble entrailed massively.
Rune Retro whiskers congregate, blood squeak of the herd
do fruit
& jabbing trill,
flood plains.

Lagoon remnants bleeding salmon aquatic nocturnal warms,
wanted,
curved.

Deers – early as early a knifing in livid Ever
fens’ve powder Spider fishes ground,
flew turbid
stealthy sweet smoke heart size.

Dread.
Dulled.
Pebble,
putty tone,
Vessel
differing den pegs –
Pheasant
the dark moon turns.

Ricochet, straw cauldrons, water sickle
rooting turbid Rails.
Pig gathers in the lemon.
Cow, later of wood.
Lioness, ’twas all moon down in the brainstem,
tally-sticks –
Jackal woke fresh, key made from Butterfly depths,
the Chrysalis,
the Spider.
Treasury Futures.
Asterisms liced from the Skull.
Nerve Surge.
Expulsions to a Rope.