Blood tree

a man coughed up an intact blood clot shaped like a lung passage

sprung fully formed
like a god from the lung
will you rot back
into a travesty of spring

what birds would roost
in the untuning forks of your limbs
and what would they sing

like a real tree do you yearn
to be free of oxygen
bronchial to a fault

would you burn

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