Bones Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Bones



Undertakers assemble them like dolls
Waxed mannikins in a silk lined box
Dogs gnaw them with bared fangs
Seamen carve scrimshaw into them
Knucklebones were used for dice
For telling runes

Whalebones laced Victorian belles up tight
Voodoo dancers rattle them in a trance
Sky burial in Nepal, eagles snap the lot

Sheena Blackhall
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: bone
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