tautogram

sweet skin splits,
sweat slick, salt-stung.
something sacred soured
somewhere south of sense.

soft spoken sins
seeping slow.
sticky, seething
self swallowed, still screaming.

scabbed seams stich shame into sinew,
I am sightless, searching.

someone’s salvation sits silent, subterranean
soil-sleepers stir,
segmented, singing.
season summoned swarms
split sky, swarm skin.

still-
some small stubborn softness stays.


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Pretty words for ugly things.