bitter chill shivers
spoil over every inch
of petty white dress.
blackbirds so black you
could call them exquisite
death. you could call them.
blackbird fly.
three days harsh white.
ruthless, wicked white.
glazed in carbon-- the
smokestack's black grit.
blackbirds so black you
could sell them in milan.
trash-vogue for trash-vogue;
merla gone.
chanting, eating through white
world in fever sun frozen
amber; "lord, i don't care about
you no more, winter is over!"