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Eriko Apr 2016
~have you ever drowned?

metaphorically or literally?

~does it matter?

*i guess not
Eriko Apr 2016
The forerunner, the front runner
Ringed titanium hair luminescent
In the pearly shiver orb
The moon staked within bright sight

Jittery glances shadowed underneath
The emerald staunches of a forgotten city
Life and plants retaking what's lost
And runner descends, silent and stern

The silent tickle of cool rain
Casting hazy mists above the horizon
The city empty and blind
Without life of those of eyes

Alone he walks through the rubble and rain
Fair hair an alien hue in the green rubble
Picking his synthetic organs and conscious
Fixated by the growth and looming strife

Blurring the lines, collapsing the bridge
Returning to the methods of another drone
Yet still silently he walks in the gloom
A synthetic heart, a drone that can conjure tears
Eriko Apr 2016
a spilling broth of muse*
shimmering under the golden flicker
golden rays folding
travelling like a flock of pollen
downy ethereal of a darling rose
peckered white and chuckling
the brambles scraping the sky
the way my flesh warmed
in the insolent pair of eyes
hidden as one with the bloom
the crackling of thunder
ignited in his hearth
yet the dangle of curls
crude flick of his wrist
yet the disguise perceives
a performance which doesn't
fool her
and the rose quivers
from the breath which escapes
a glimpse of a softness
before gone his footsteps
*pad softly in the dawning torrent
Eriko Apr 2016
A flume of cloud dust
Residue left by the particles
Or another wrought arm
Shoulder to shoulder
Head to head
An elbow grazing
Eyes averted as if
To mean nothing
Petals like stolen pebbles
Left on the marble countertop
On the waning afternoon light
A warm grey and mystifying echo
Sometimes my hands tremble
Skipping the stones
The flower tucked behind my ear
And a void of fear
Underneath the surface
Which has iced
Over the absent years
Eriko Apr 2016
Breath
The vessel
Journeyed across
Expanse
And oblivion
Can be taken easier

Carry the jar strapped to my pack
Sealed tightly so wolves cannot lunge
It's a breathing organism
A riveting chance, a manifesting fixation
Eriko Apr 2016
There does not need be
A king

And do not praise me
A queen

Fixate the hole in the ground
The blisters in the crease
The black eye and sore heart

I carry the shovel
Where ever needs be

A desecrator with a fearless
Grin nestled in the crooks
Of my painted red lips
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