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The sky split, cracked open through sheer force. A spectre’s mind is hailed away to a foreign shore, nestled amongst unsolidified generalities, binding it to the aftermath of time’s relevance. Hope came in a voided sun, imploding in the sky over Bethlehem, and through its transparency, a vision of the end was brought forth to this unjust land, where filth rules supremacy, and dominion is granted for a grandfather’s pittance. It displayed the market value of a soul through a diminished stance, collapsing on the shore as violent waves crash and beat the resonant senses held within.



Contemporaries held in fear, chucked and pushed down back alleys, ending up under the pier, vandalizing a vanquished peer, awkward glances insuring no one is near. Washed away with the evening tide, passed up to the coast after a lifeless ride. Broken down, drifting with the stream, token now, drifting with the dream.
Naturalized and neutered before a board of advisors, composed of highly unsanitary elders, pieces of flawn stuck to the chin, picked up while eating from another’s bin. Dictated and deemed to seem all right, recreations shown on daily late night, refracted and turned into a joke, remuneration held as big brother had spoke. Patience restored as order forms in line, hastened into place by fluorinated wine, individuals return to their lives, and negligently pass over recent lies.
Noah Vanderwerf Aug 2019
solid, stable, present
i re-enter the mold
edges grinding, sliding,
little passing collisions

my edges are jagged again
rolling, bumping and jumping
along shifting terrain
no longer settled

scratches form,
minute to the eye
but etched on my skin,
welts left in the walls

holes i made to fill with myself which i could never serve

quicker and quicker, noise builds
my core exposed under the blemishes
a rattling, radiating engine
excited amongst all the fumes

where others would repair,
or dissipate tension,
i burn
turn to smoke

there's no real pressure
but my temperature rises
i raise my heat specifically to escape
attempting to relieve internal density

floating out of the mold again,
where i have collected myself so many times over,
no longer unsettled

i cherish this peace
with the sacrifice of being weightless
unpacked and unsolidified in the wind
seeing the distant commotion

i still yearn to be in that mold
but i know what will happen

that i have
and will
sublimate

— The End —