Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Brownout

September 12, 2012

#8 Brownout

Burnt myself brown, darker than shoe-polish stains,
hydrocarbons aromatic, cyclic and nauseating . Smiled back
at the bushes, pockets of empty. Escaping from the
forest of burning trees and the thick smoke of bees, towards
the water source - the trickle of life.

4 comments:

  1. amazing words again !! how you dig yourself and create such imagery !!

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  2. this has a pervading sense of gloom, but the "aalo-r aalpin" comes at the end! Loved it!

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