.
from
the roughdrafts of a precocious
necromancer

engaged in nonchalant anthropometric warlike trials :
as
****-knuckled as digging in the mud with a stick

heliotrope scars scorched into the concrete like an afterimage burn-
ed down into deathmask portraiture

the
wendigo-kiss

it’s indigoblack invasion : your body like the caustic embraces of ice water

the billowing foundry of
forgetteries
atop
it’s gleaming hill-perch, sneering down at the city
with
all the tenderness of
systematic
immolation