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evergreen darkness

ice
melts
with rivers bleeding,
blooming into springs alarm
shaking me
from my hibernation slumber.
cocoons
             crack
ripping the silk woven caskets,
opening baskets for spread
wing’d departures.
moss runways launch test pilot
butterflies into the cool crisp sky
for flutter’d first flights.
 
 
ice
runs
through me
unwilling to yield to climbing mercury,
those frozen tar parts
sink deep and dark
anchoring the demons with unrelenting
clenched claws
holding fast with cement intent.
in the dirty ditches
with pitch’d tents
those permanent residents
dance a voodoo two step
hardening the ground
closing escape routes of the graves
toasting the live burials
of my enslaved smile.
 
frostbite blackens my insides
killing the remaining
surviving resistance
and casting a net of year-round
polar winter solstice
over my desolate spirit.
the springs of hell burst
my blood vessels
gushing waterfalls
mirroring my pit falls.
 
blue skies laid to waste
evergreen darkness
coats this place
lingering
burning
from plagued palette pages
to palates of an acquired
morbid taste.

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