Little City

Little City
what has dropped
tween your seams
and burned spotlights
across jurisdictions
through dork realms
and cool motifs
and overlapping themes
and motifs

On skyscrapers I've seen
three thousand windows
they've spelled your name
and cried for dimes
and held shimmering in the
heaviest of days

the welds fight for support
guilds draw sticks
secret smokes in dark
Throats
black

When It's Wedding Time Down South

Hording Georgia gorges

Raffling Savannah porches

Torching Decatur forests

Touring Milltown florists

Combing empty beaches

Dreaming of future nieces

Truing heart-spoked wheels

Adorning fragrant blazers

Holding freetown doormats

Clutching heartache handbags

Tearstained velour dreamcoats

Foraging in swamps with locals

Diving into murk murk

Swerving into ravines

Jumping guns with Dixie

Starting fires, ziptie bracelets

Nobody ever makes it

The One bleeds y'all together

True voices ring

Droners relax

Your strangle