Spiral

The sirens screech announces

The spiral staircase down from heaven

Jacobs Twisted Ladder

The skies shed themselves

Of their carrion angels

Falling to earth

Feasting on flesh

They murder the burden

They bid with their beaks

Like rapturous raptors,

The meat from the marrow

They unclothe the overdressed of their finery and furs

And bring home truth and death 

Bring them down from heaven,

Death descends down the staircase,

Glamorous as a gilded girl at the gala,

Buoyed up by the whirl of wings

Brings by it

A Carcass cleaned

Leaving

Only the thin truth

of thin air

As flesh breaks down

A soul ascends

And only the truth of bones

Remains