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As Sunday Smiles

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Torrey

Copper oxidation smiles green around our ringed

fingers filled with the folly of better times as

chip tunes plot our path to destruction and self-imposed

exile to other pastures-

greener, some might say.

I croak hollow at the gestures of love

we dance with, between shouting matches of whispered

words and spoken unutterables that neither dare approach

or use in our moonlight debacles as we take our forms,

respective.

You-

A monstrosity of purpled wings and sphinx’s dedication,

with harpy claws to match.

The animist of the broken lineage,

Your ancestral yearning,

yowling,

falling on deaf ears.

You’ll pay their blood debt,

even if their blood has run dry.

And I-

The crow’s own heart and tongue,

wings crystalline,

shattering,

sharp.

Littering your yards with gifts of my own desire.

I who stole the cookie from the fox

and laughed while it starved,

singing songs none care for-

myself not excluded.

But our endless numbered days have yet to end

and we will keep counting.

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