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pain
ancient oak tree
lightning scarred trunk
branches sag
folded–winged vultures
awaiting roadkill dream
ancient me
dystrophied body
arms, hands, legs
knife cuts and fire burns
Cronus eats his son*
roadside crows
dead jackrabbit feast
blooded claws
desert highway sings
bleak ribbon of death
soft muscles rot
stench of mortality
sweet decay
the body says “enough”
the soul says “hang tough”
ancient oak tree
blowing in the wind
no answer, friend
vulture wings unfold
black clouds at sunset
* Saturn Devouring His Son by
Francisco Goya. It shows the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus who, fearing that he would be overthrown by one of his children, ate each one upon their birth.
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