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On the edge of an eroding cliff
Soil plummets to the encroaching tide
The sun fading below the horizon
And the red washing deeper still
Trembling hands
Rust from rings and scars

As I began my ascension
Eyes bright, cut jaw, allies surrounding me
Never a gaze offered downward
Never an axe off the nape

Callous foundation
Calcified plinth
Marbled erasure
Plate xenolith

They spat on my name
As I brought fire and chains
And gouged from the earth
“A trifling dissent”
I smiled as I gave out the order
Burgeoning eclipse

“Bring me their martyrs
Bring me every single heathen's skull”

A silhouette in the anointed light
A shadow cast deep over their progeny
What little marl left in this unacclaimed tomb
Seeded with apostasy

It's getting harder to stand up straight
To placate the dust in my nerves with a roll of the shoulder
To maintain a quiet stare with the mirror
To reach out and clasp the wisps
Of what semblance of principles remain
They slip like coral crumbling in the reef
The drifting gasp of a dying dog
Tongue lolling, legs twitch
Does their last thought lie with their keeper
Or with their mother?

Chalk outlines in sitting positions
Arms folded, legs crossed
Heads tilted in mild disagreement
Flat bruises on broken wrists
A chronicle of amber and paranoia
The glint snaps back to the prospect
To the dying grass curled under toe
To the abyss
To the step
To the shift
To the pitch
To the gore

A quaking breath lurching with pretexts
A stuttering hiss dripping venom
A dissonant aria of recompense
A fetal crouch in totality
Do these aerial hands push
Or is it their weight that stirs my tread?
Conclusions lost in the rush of silt and smog
The few precious seconds till azure met

Solace has never felt so vacuous
Clouding skies, gray from mold and rot
The sun fading, and the red washing deeper still to the shore
The red washing deeper still into black

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from DISSECTING A ONE​-​WINGED BIRD, released May 26, 2023

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A Constant Knowledge of Death Massachusetts

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1/25 - dNB Craft Kitchen, New Bedford, MA w/ Eye Flys, BEDTIME MAGIC, Don't Grow Old

1/27 - O'Brien's Pub, Allston, MA w/ Diva Karr, Prayer Position, The Cost Ov Living, Luci Dead Limb

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