Remarks on Nomenclature

That their beauty would save me:

I never had the chance to share this

thought with any of them. As if

they knew of this responsibility

and fled: tomahawk-like desire returns.

*

100’s of birds (species unknown) land

on this leafless tree (species also unknown)

outside my (Homosapien Caucasoid) window.

They are ravenous this Veteran’s Day:  

to save oneself alongside others.   

*

That your pheromones…

I never had the chance to share this

thought with him because I don’t know

which he emits said aroma? 

As if he knew his smell…     

*

After those who’ve fled, to settle

for what one can get. Beyond to be

saved is to risk. Random flesh

inside random flesh:  

to save oneself alongside others.

**

MFA graduate of Vermont College, and instructor of poetry workshops at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Kevin McLellan has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including: Arabesque Review, Barrow Street, BLOOM, Exquisite Corpse, Konundrum Engine Literary Review, MiPoesias, and others. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Archived at http://lit.konundrum.com/poetry/mclellank_poems.php