Friday, February 6, 2009

Linen

It

was you who made them matter, staring in like

a frozen-cold-starving-orphaned pauper child at

frosted-window shielded, steaming hot and dripping wet

fire-food, preaching about the end of the world through

your frozen shut, silent and stained rosemary lips.

A miracle, and I was envious.

Face as black as indigo coal, all

dark, dark, dark

and one golden-linen eye

the world is swathed in whirls of bulbous

platforms, mingling

smoke in star-filled gazes,

smashed like pens stripped

into the ocean,

tides of blood beat the sand,

all the colors smudged like gray in one final

linen

dress.

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