Nathaniel S. Rounds
Duck Fur
Chromo-photolithograph of a fan-cooled fursuit duck Strumming a one-string canjo At a wedding held Beneath palm-leaf-and-Spanish-moss shade For the benefit Of two sun-burnt Northerners Dressed in rubber gloves and surgical masks One fine print is flipped to another The story progresses like a candle’s flame Tonight the sky will be ablaze With kaleidoscopic star dances Swirled in peach orchard punch While underneath sound wave cracklature Florence Nightingale sings
Nathaniel S. Rounds was born in Texas, weaned in New Hampshire and educated/corrupted in the Maritimes. He shares an apartment in Port Orange, Florida with three children, a reluctant uncle, a wife, and a mother who seems always to know best. He's been published in Scrivener, Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle, Arsenic Lobster, and many other online/print forums.
