the moon, the stars,
the darkness
before the rose
and all that stirs, lies
beneath the crest
of hollowed eyes
crouched atop bones
wept white to fossil,
uneasily buried
in a strata of slept
and when
thoughts mesh
like entwined fingers,
those nimble servants
of build,
we stoop to erect a shelter
of ourselves
against tomorrow
riddled radioactive
with the ghosts
of today
skull-sure in the logic
of a far-off dawn
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