~ mechanical trees ~

girls perched like birds in its branches

nests of paper

lights flicker in the shiny leaves

iron hawks

viral infected driven

flew in a flash of light

brought a season

and i saw

mechanical trees in autumn

but these were two evergreen machines

but now they glow they mark the land

they fall

the earth says

a shake

a wall of water

a whirling dervish of air?

not this time mother

the girls the birds -the fevered hawks

were our species

infected and altered the seasons

without saying

the nests the nests the birds the girls.

now

there is a grove

there is I can see it

two mechanical trees

now no

shake

no wall of water

no dervish can whirl away

iron infections a distant land

no longer two machine evergreens

but an eternal forest above

and girls laughing

along the water

and high in the branches