Almanac Poetry: ‘Wiregrass Cuts’ – Tommy Mallet

 

 

Wiregrass Cuts

 

Wiregrass gets between my fingers and a heavy rock
I’m lifting,
cutting them deep.

 

The blood takes a while to appear, but flows
over mud and flesh, before falling to greys and greens –
a red, so bold, so singular and
rich,
it stops me.

 

A paint

 

that, while wet,
burns,
oh, that
snakes!

 

I stop, watching it pool and trickle.

 

Another drop falls,
just missing the smallest lizard –

 

this colour of exquisite

 

beauty,

 

released in swear words
by bush or tools,
every several days,

 

over many years.

 

 

 

 

More from Tommy Mallet can be read Here.

 

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Comments

  1. Malby Dangles says

    Mallet smashes it again!

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