Vitiation


my mind is a blank -
a dry riverbed with its staple of
gangrened phantom limbs.

growth has gone obsolete
in the proximity of that frigid and ungainly behemoth.

deep in the smithy of my impatient and bristling heart,
my still-born sword will arouse again from the flames of life,
but not today ...

today belongs to oblivion.

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John Dantzer said…
Nice. I feel like that probably more than I should.
25 September 2011 at 19:28
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