REAPED

by Alfred Fournier

a harvest of unwanted
children
rustle in corn leaves
dry with Alabama dust

songless & ravaged
forced
into being weakly lean
in blackbird wind

somewhere a bloated fish
of a man grins his
unwelcomed
white seed swims

Alfred Fournier resides in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an entomologist and a graduate of Purdue and George Washington Universities. His work is forthcoming in Cathexis Northwest Press.