Tuesday 8 December 2020

DEATH AND LIFE IN WINTER

Cold cuts deep

through flesh it stings

the blood sings 

a screaming note

splashing on snow pure as souls


the mist the steam that drifts 

effervescent unashamed 

caught in currents invisible to the wide staring eye 

tears turn to crystal on refracted and expiring lenses

cataracts go milky then disintegrate


the trees saw it all 

they witness with bated breath 

casting out roots in slow fashion pursuit

millimetres a day driven by cravings 

for nutrients that leak from this body 

nitrogen that will burst into the soil

after raving insatiable dots do their work 


endless totems of myth

through carrion crawler and lightning they are fed

we make tiny flattened winterfresh idols

to dangle on our mirrors 

to mask the scent of greasy paper bags

made from their skin

the fibres of their flesh



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