Collage of My Greyhound, Phoenix

From the collection of "Bodily Observations"

I douse her nose with the sea of smoke, 

Stippling her cheeks with soot  

With ashen shadows casted in her wake. 

Sharp shoulders jutting up,  

A proud mountain range, 

As her jawline is clad  

With jagged coals. 

 

The sun once shone  

And she, the challenge, met. 

She lapped up that radiant star 

Placing it in the web of her iris 

Blotting it out eternally, 

Silver cinders plunging into her pupils 

Withdrawn into her obsidian nucleus. 

 

My greyscale kaleidoscope, 

Still and fractured reproduction, 

A monument to her cosmic visage. 

  

A blazing wave of embers swells behind her 

To lick the untarnished whites of her silhouette 

That it might claim what remains of her  

Negative space. 

 

Phoenix Flyer, 

Forged in fire.