Mississ Tippy Shiver

Bend, trend, you've rent barbarous
hair styles, in chunks and waves
take your sodden metaphors
and narrative munge the strays
caterwaul and clapper thrall
music so-call spray 
rhythm looks upon itself
and plays and plays and plays.

Music, ruse, a baton reddish rouge
river's end in orlean spend
lost on whiffle wharfs
oyster sweat is butter breath
grown a mortuary
place the face above the ground
floods are cold canaries.