computer screen

moonlight river 
celestial serenade 
greedy corpses dance between starlit rooftops
footfall silence of aching movement
cruel patter of rain and disease
mind like body like tool
cruel in kind places
sharp in soft places
effigy of umber and flesh and warmth and rot
and all scurrying from sunlight

bloated beasts of treacherous trenches
fickle fish of stranger kinds
poisoned fruit--hidden snake
washed by weary wielding waves
carried by human hands
sea turned shivering shore
shore into endless writhing
turning
churning 
sea 

emmett

VT

18 years old

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  • By emmett

    Alphabet Fruit

    see this world fold into the next

    dog-eared mountaintops

    shaded spine valley

    page as unending, unheeding landscape

    rich fertile soil bearing alphabet fruit

    picked, eaten, digested, divulged
  • By emmett

    What's Left Behind


                shadows
    in the shape of a person
                falling to the tenderness 
    of bruised knees

                tears just