Southbound
Ada M. Collins-Sibley
sound made
of the spot between shoulder-blade and spine
embers, breath(e) out,
burning, breath(e) in.
half pound of
bones made out of
bone, crushed
by sturdy-limbed
Southerntrees
in eyes lingering
on peach stonebones,
under soaked earth-genes,
wet whispers;
passed on soundpains.
creak-creak-creak;
ship-shick-sharp;