The Visitation of Dogs Called Flowers

rather from the point in time I have been given
this generation shall be all the dogs
that died defending children
reborn from all ages and locations
so indifferent to cold lake water,
Anthos, who bit the tendon of a bad Athenian,
was seized against the pull of the maw,
The Great Attractor, Satan,
at the brink of the heliopause
by lightsprung angels
her information delivered
a shocked child from the ocean of the Eastern Seaboard
In 1878
it’s just one of those things, man,
it’s just one of those things.

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William Wiggington lives in Blue Haven, Australia.