Sunday, October 22, 2017

102217b


Exodus

A world like any other
makes a place for us,
plastic bridge shimmer
stitches together
a crimson landscape,
eroding mounds
under a bloody sun,
red-veined leaves,
carmine fruit, scarlet vines,
flowers like ripe cherries.

Humanity takes its lumps
like any evacuees,
learns to eat what’s here

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