on the nature of flesh (poetr...

By laylanoche

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ON THE NATURE OF FLESH (AND THE FLESH OF NATURE) is a youthful mix of extended metaphor, low humour, rambles... More

introduction
body is a city
the debt I owe the shrike
Do Not Call Me Woman
Imposter
our father is not God
Carrion Grove

we break the night

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By laylanoche

reverently, blasphemously,
we break the night
into a thousand gorgeous shards of light.
behind my retinas burns our joined image
shadow against scalding white
fervid, tattooed, daguerreotype.
wildly, earnestly,
into stained glass portrait
we break the night.


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