Splitting, inarticulate rock:
Roots feeling out the silt in the cracks.
Stunted, arthritic trees thrash
The blue wind, which is pulling at twigs.
A maelstrom of white voices brews.
Ancestral voices woo. They ask me
To bare my neck and remember Tsar
Lazar and his bones. I bow my head.
A white fox tracks a brown dove
Fallen from a fir. It hits.
The bird rises to black claws
In a whir, a broken clap of wings.
It’s a red spill, a shriek, in the snow.
The blood steams. Serbia dreams.
