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109 · Sep 2020
#3
Ben Sep 2020
#3
Creeping between blades
A pair of unseeing eyes
Looking to ascend
Written while observing a swallow tail caterpillar make his way towards a rise of tree roots through the grass. They have fake eyes on their heads.
108 · Oct 2020
#10
Ben Oct 2020
#10
Sun warms dark water
Wraiths of mist dance on the lake
Waltzing through the reeds
105 · Jul 2024
#24
Ben Jul 2024
#24
Muddy clumps of earth
Dog paws working in the sun
Feverish intent
100 · Oct 2020
#15
Ben Oct 2020
#15
Chain mail of green moss
Blazing paths on slick tree trunks
Damp armor of shade
96 · Jul 2024
As soon as you're awake
Ben Jul 2024
That suffocating
That's draped like a cowl
Over everyone
All the time

That rends fingers to skeletal shard
Scrapes face to glistening bone
Pushes the ground's whispering
Heartbeat right up to the hole
Where ears sat perched and
Peach colored

Until it all becomes a low ring
A dull hum
The panicked buzz of transparent wings
The monotonous
Plink plink plink
Throwing our bodies against
A fake escape

That suffocating
Is a burlap shawl
Sewn by the wind
That you are swaddled in at
****** birth
And a burial cowl
At bloodless death

We all wear it together
And alone
But the tailor makes sure
It's always on
57 · Jun 12
Clover
Ben Jun 12
Awful things happen
And we are flayed open
Left to bleed dry on the hook of time
But how wonderful
To watch honey bees waltz
From clover flower to clover flower
As we are left to mine an ounce of happiness
From the fetid vein of misery

— The End —