Saturday, October 24, 2009

Shadow Dancer



Yellowed

vellum pages turn

as a moths dancing soliloquy

makes drunken shadows on the ancient pages

the wine-stained ink of blood

in the false light of history.

Victorious monuments rising

from the bone piles of the living

mystery, as the waves break

upon this fertile earth,

draining to bleach bones and shells.

This dawns leaden weight of clouds

resting silently on the beach

amidst the crying gulls

and salty tears of ocean mist.

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