Spirits Terrify (A Pindaric Triad) Poem by R. H. Peat

Spirits Terrify
(A Pindaric triad)

1
Her long hair
blown
spread-out into
wings

lifts from her shoulders.

2
That apple
picked
bitten into,
flesh

set to her front teeth.

3
Finished
that core
thrown away
on the ground.

A blue-jay alights
to peck at dark seeds.

Satin eyes
inside a wet skull
startled sky
that bird flies away.


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© RH.Peat — 3/4/99 — Rewrite 2/24/2008
Form: syllabic meter stanza patterns - Pindaric triad
3 parts - 7 stanzas - 20 lines
Published in Rattlesnake Review
A Quarterly JournalZine from Rattlesnake Press
Snake Twenty: Winter,2008 - 9
Published USA 2008