open sesame chicken

"Keys did I carry, the rustiest of all keys; and I knew how to open with them the most creaking of all gates." --Common's Zarathustra, 41.

Gonna Roll the Bones.

pass the slow-assembling ziggurat
having been born under Sputnik

sweltering
not rhetorical

struggle to make a non-dissolving story
out of this witness

"Lego gel"
i say to the crosseyed octopus

though it was not, after all, sage Graywyvern
hauled cinders to Ctesiphon

(ghazal in 109 rhime)