"Seraphim," A Visual Poem

This is a visual interpretation of my poem Seraphim.

Also viewable on Youtube:

The poem:

                                                           Seraphim

                           I’d like to see a leather-skinned carny
                           take a swig from their whiskey bottle,
                           undo the critical safety bolts,
                           put the thing into overdrive,
                           and step into the twirling monster
                           hurling them up into the air
                           over sawdust and lights
                           and old-fashioned wonders,
                           their broken body
                           for all the world to see
                           careening through metal,
                           dirt,
                           and bone,
                           a perfect death rattle
                           delivered to them by the machine
                           they’ve been shuffling screaming children through
                           for murderous years on the circuit
                           day after unmarked day,

                           now that’s
                           a real close to the wire circus act
                           not seen or heard of
                           before or since

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