Tuesday poem #333 : Luke Bradford : Great Horned Owl

for Anthony Etherin

go! loth wanderer,

    wrangled hooter,

lorn weather-god,

    leeward: go north.

retread (how long?)

    nae old regrowth

nor whorled gate:

    leeward, go north.

another grew old:

    the lorn dowager,

the warlord gone;

    the lord wagoner,

the lard-row gone;

    the orange world,

the oranger wold.

    leeward, go north.

lo! goth wanderer,

    hooted wrangler,

elated, grow horn—

    oh! grow antlered,

(oh! grown altered)

    row, tangled hero,

(oh! tangled rower)

    leeward: go north.

how terra longed

     (how golden, terra)

to harrow legend,

     to lead her wrong.

how terra longed

     (how golden, terra):

the orange world

     another red glow.

oh! gentled arrow,

    loathed, regrown,

dart erelong (how

    long?) toward here.

oh! let danger row

    thee, lorn war-god,

regaled two-horn,

    leeward: go north.

oh, row! let danger

    adorn thee; growl,

glow, ardent hero,

    long-eared, wroth:

dart erelong (how

    long?) toward here.

go: a netherworld

    doth glow, nearer...

Luke Bradford is an experimental poet living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His latest collection of constrained poetry, Glossology, is available for free download as a PDF or for purchase as a book at lukebradford.xyz/glossology. His work has been published by Penteract Press, Spacecraft Press, and Timglaset.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan