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compewter sky

in a time of modern warfare and cyberattacks

Tonja E. Betts
Mar 14, 2022
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

compewter sky
plates periled-plains
with hemoglobin
and paper-rain
printed down
by direct plan.
( — — polaroids;;;)
(&pots&pans — -)

compewter sky —
the flocci prowl.
tenents succumb,
hackers growl;
plaited debris
imperials scan.
( — — polaroids;;;)
(&pots&pans — -)

compewter sky
strips the pills;
sugar of lead
dropped, distilled.
syncopates
timbre of land.
( — — polaroids;;;)
(&pots&pans — -)

compewter sky.
putter-punts.
pardon for
the praline sun
and passerines.
but peppered man.
( — — polaroids;;;)
(&pots&pans — -)

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Tonja E. Betts
Tonja E. Betts

Written by Tonja E. Betts

Scrabble addict, enthusiastic tea drinker, perfume bottle collector, Prince music lover, poesy paronomasia-ist, happy mom.

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