Crowstep
poetry journal
Glass Harp Presage
For Ben Franklin, Inventor
Black moon ascending
precedes a solar eclipse
fodder for soothsayers
on the far side of prediction,
good omen for cat burglars
scaling buildings, lifting
ice, procuring algorithms
as hip-hop millionaires
purchase another gold chain,
hone their art, lionize doggerel,
sip white wine from crystal stem
goblets held by digits softly calloused,
saluting back doors of every entrance
where solar energy street lights
project automated luminescence
until the dim shadows abate, release
the dark orb, and sounds of clashing
toasts ring like a glass armonicas
spinning with great consequence:
friction idiophones emitting high pitched
rings driving me as crazy as Lunar beams.
Sterling Warner is ​an award-winning author, poet and educator. His works have appeared in literary magazines, journals, and anthologies including Danse Macabre, Ekphrastic Review,
and Anti-Heroin Chic. Warner’s collections include Rags & Feathers, Without Wheels, ShadowCat, Edges, Serpent’s Tooth, Flytraps, Cracks of Light, and Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories.
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