Creative Submission: ‘We strangle nature’s bough’ by Thomas Gallimore Barker
Image: Francesco Ungaro
Black bough sweating mildew
as it wades through garbage
down in the gutter
made by human hands.
The blades drop, their green skin pockmarked
from crawling through sludge
forced through human hands.
Strands are boa’s across the leaves
like phlegm from nostrils,
a tangle of weeds
hanging the bough until it suffocates.
Knotted by human hands.
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