there.

rewriting landscape.

 

Laurel DeCou

untitled

 

a suffocation by sight where breath sifts out like clouds but here is venom and so fall () it is decades now the sky met saffron rud and roast but come again watch the devastation of imagination streaming red tears and sheets of skin () above the burning the air turns soft and caramel gazing down on one crossing ended and the crispness of creation dissolving in rivers and blood () the world on fire and the beautiful grotesque molds into thickness of salt invading iron and soot requesting mementos of two hands then one foot () conceive a sphere in a desert and we will live without children

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* Viewing Jack Aeby’s photo The First Atomic Bomb


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