Friday, December 3, 2010

Gallows

from above, the winged creature of life and death struck.
a birth a death a life a life ended.
one in the same the way it were arranged the corpses in the muck.
a hearse, last breath, dull knife, upended.
flowers arose from the spot on the land
images spoken just slightly offhand
a man and a woman escaping the plague
a child thats left on the street with no legs
a journey man ordering planks for the gallows,
his fathers crops rotting and land turning sallow.

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