... And the skin opened up into wide, cavernous cracks.. and there was a hissing sound-- a burning smell.. not unlike that of a calf-branding on an everyday, working South Dakota cattle ranch--
The feathering smoke, curling around the ancient stubs of that which is as of yet, de-horned. And there was a raging scream-- yet, one almost as if harmononiously intertwined with the guttural moans of a pleasure-chant: that which is borne.. not of victimization, but of deep, consensual agreement
And, against this kind of liaison between flesh and death, all the power of love's ache becomes a l m o s t as if nothing other than a whisper...