I Flutter and Flash (Final)

I flutter and flash like memories
          of the butterfly hatch.
I writhe serpentine black letters
          on fierce burning sands.
I wander indifferent ways in different ways,
I laugh through the love I speak
          and the teeth I gnash.

I eaglet stumble and wounded stagger
          and every purpose cross.
I stammer and stutter like the wind-
          tossed shutters.
I study a mess of life like a loveletter;
I seek a moving target
          in the heavy loveless dark.

I encircle and envelop like
          a crowded fog of ghosts.
I rebirth and bare my wires
          to the perfect wirecutters.
I typewrite and typewright,
I live the living world
          through its changeling words.

I huddle and hide like starfish
          beneath the tide.
I am avian lyric on impossible lyres
          from craggy seaside cliffs.
I exasperate and exacerbate,
I breathe the breathless
          and the breathtaking.