History’s Bark

Beyond the rings, the stings, the wings
fires sing to trees
ashes crashes mashes stored
inner record pings

bygones bywrongs
left and right
brothered othered
                                 cored

bitten smitten written claws
law leviathanks
rank and drank and dank and stank
filled with brim and vim

rigor tortoise underworld
participate the shell
or your burning gasoline
haunts you all too well.