On Easter Sunday

we bomb 

them Monday 

after Monday

fledglings stagger

bodies flounder

laser guided

hawks dive

we bomb them Friday 

into Friday tiny 

red bursting maple 

buds obscure bobbing

tiny rafts rise 

and fall drowning

sanctified we bomb 

them Wednesday to

Wednesday

precision guided 

honeybees cover

golden dandelions

fleeing bloodshed

with their thrumming

easy prey small 

circular error probable 

satellite guided smart 

seeds breach erupt

swell corpses pile 

we bomb 

them Thursday

into Thursday sensitive 

urban zones open mouthed

exclusive robins seek 

munition worms

we bomb them

skunk cabbage unfurls

inverse cube law

reveals tender tendrils

purple green 

coils

of despair 

published November, 2019. Underwood Press. The Purpled Nail.