Kurt Philip Behm

Tokens In Exile

Seconds hunger

 days unweaned

compression fracture

broken dreams

 

Minutes uncounted

hours unnamed

 Humptiest Dumpty

in pieces again

 

Yahweh once spoken

reason besieged

tokens in exile

pagans to grieve

 

One for the money

two when it’s shown

oracle harlot

—cursed and dethroned

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2022)