Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 20, 2026

The sound of the scraping sky

"...Atlas is explaining the nature of his shoulders..."

The sound of the scraping sky

The sound of the scraping sky
Opening the mouths of the lumbermen

the sound of the submarine
diving
into the deep
whose reaches shake the world

iron speaks of his pain
Atlas is explaining the nature of his shoulders

for the turn of the gyroscope

metal's passion
suffering on the cross of earth and sky

the fatigue umbers deeper for his voice in you






Article © Robin Wyatt Dunn. All rights reserved.
Published in the March 1, 2021 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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