" Boding "...

" Boding "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Boding
kicking
slumping

notoriously
bleak
curtailed
appeals

renewed
inquiries
deteriorating
leads

coming
face to face
in the field

guts and glory
sawed off
looking small

recently recalled
sounding off
all the more

upon finding flaws
via fountains
of tortoises

murmuring softly
scarcely forlorn
more deplorable

nights before
sadly at war
crowds overall

sweeping across
swarming lighted torches
held aloft...