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Parallels

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Wounded? Dead!
Will they now sow my bones
in successive rows, corn cobs flowing
in the sod? Such an end!
Will my marrow feed the worms?
My sinews curl around the roots that
suck their life-food from my blood?
Oh, such an end; I must deserve
it.



Wounded and dead
scattered like so much chaff
throughout these green ravines. Could
this have been a breathing being—
pumping, plump—pulp.
These bushes, thorns and blossoms, they
have fed upon the unfettered
bodies of the free. And look at me:
wandering through the rows, singing
prose and feeling sadness or intensity in
throes.
I wrote this in April, and I still like it, after all these months.
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nancy-long-ago's avatar
Wow, this is really beautiful! Very crafty as well, it really flows. Wonderful!