i
am a constellation-
raw blood, copper
spots, yellow lines
two seconds smeared across an eastern sky
to shimmer & waste
and
boldly go where only dead have gone before
and only dead would go after.
we, of lines, of
lineage before us
of those with cold eyes, cold hearts
cold bones
in cold fingers.
o, martiana
you of blood flags and hollow eyes
you and you of horrorstory hands
and rust for hair
-( a sea) of rust for hair
a sea of rust and fingers, bones
the curve of moving fingers of the blind
and the gaping maw of inexplicable.
i
am,
am or was
the wind that drives
the red cells
to the veins
to smear the skies often called 'chrystalline'
smear them from the eyes of the faraway gods
and catapult them into the night of the blinded.
two years, two seconds, two months, two days
and fourty-eight hundred aeons
press across the eastern sky
o, martiana,
you of faded night and
coughing dusk;
you that drew the expanse
of death
and life
and death again
your song is ringing across the writhing plains
ringing,
and fading
and soon
not even the gods will be there
to discern it
or you.
Author notes
had a picture of romantic-era ode,
except written to a ghostly wasteland.
voila.
pretty apt reflection of our state of mind nowadays.
please critique it to death- first writing since december.
please tear the damn thing apart.
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...and if i stopped burning, would you know in your lifetime?
