SING SING PRISON BY NIGHT
Barbed wire gleaming in the light
Of stars and searchlights
Elegant as any palace gate
Of ornamental iron.
It might entice a prisoner
To ascend until he fell,
Leaving a sphere
of blood suspended from a metal point. . .
On a holly branch, a Christmas berry.
Boria Sax (c) 2020
The Raven and the Sun: Poems and Stories
Of stars and searchlights
Elegant as any palace gate
Of ornamental iron.
It might entice a prisoner
To ascend until he fell,
Leaving a sphere
of blood suspended from a metal point. . .
On a holly branch, a Christmas berry.
Boria Sax (c) 2020
The Raven and the Sun: Poems and Stories
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