Sunday, October 15, 2023

ENTROPY

Dragged along the reef
of twisted frozen souls
like a dented discarded beer can
child of the rip tide
haunting fallen architecture
and statues wearing painted slime
in the invaded depths
grasping with hungry bones
and torn twins of muscle
ghostly flesh speared on goldenrod
like cobweb sagging on a field of spikes
dewdrops gathering on milk bottles
in some ancient dawn.

Lay me down on that leaning porch
as it slides down the cliffside
let my tatters be a looming flag
or some sail on fire.

Let me be a skeleton's nucleic print
or erupting light
black butterfly of entropy
let me rise on breaking branches
and eat the red crest's
raw persona of the tidal heights.

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