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Taxidermy Sundial

in the east

a dry man stumbled through the lush panacea of a dessicated prayer

his faith moved mustard gas. gasping for clarity, he spoke a thing no god could answer.

he languished in the Eden of empirical Dodos

a succulent squab in the oasis of fables. he joined the throng. his shackles were mended.

his bonds, repaired.

 

in the west -

a rye bread crumbles along a path to a candy house -

to a furnace of blank stares.

it waits moonlit and rustic, alas - it's mad and verily cloaked in a thing no ' nothing ' would ask for.

it leads to a breach.

weary of " who knows ? "

a truculent husk of a drought mislabeled. an actual flood.

it rankles the vision...

it plots despair.

 

in the north, a gunga din fumbles through the arid Earnest of our Importance. There -

we play crude brass. Profundo. at last, we nearly...

 

and even though we wide spark the char of our scorched affair

we vanquish any Southland

and the warm sun

frosts a glass eye

like pyrite.

 

and polly wants a lacquer, dark enough to maroon...

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Jun 14, 2013
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