Jason Bredle

Blackbirds

Pause for a second

before the rain shapes

a past that beckons

to dissipate

amongst the blackbirds

of our fate

& listen to the secret

of our children

amongst the thorns

carving a reminder

of the light

that tears our bodies

into the shards

from which we were born

from nightmares

that also beckon

the doctor & the nurse

to give up & bring us

the hearse