in followed hour
Barton Smock

***

in followed hour

***

drum sticks

in shanty towns,

     cup-shaped

caverns

holding

windsongs


          large hands

batting

tethered

security

cameras    pennies

cracking

the bottom

of a long jar, poverty


beating

between

the bars



boiled



in



     night, hidden



means

of a pursued

music



     some endangered

runaway's

copied

photo

on a paper door     feather

from a dying

canary

pressed

like a bookmark

     between

unread mail

on the floor of a room

where no one

has yet

arrived, where

late

these watchers

exaggerate

the wind, pin

kites



to

birds.