SMALL CIRCLE PANTOUM

  by Cappy Love Hanson



The vultures whirl like dust
before the morning’s updrafts,
sail the lotus land
along the highway margins.

Before the morning’s updrafts,
conceived of air and heat
along the highway margins,
life and death collide.

Conceived of air and heat,
the risers’ outstretched hands,
where life and death collide,
concatenate and scatter.

On risers’ outstretched hands,
the vultures whirl like dust, 
concatenate and scatter,
sail the lotus land.