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On the Mantlepiece Stood People Against the Wind

Contributed by skyhawk432 on Tuesday, 23rd June 2009 @ 09:26:52 PM in AEST
Topic: DarkPoetry

Morning unfurls the day in dark
and the hills beyond the city
sleep with frostbitten trees on top.
When looking down the slope,
at the snowglobe city,
no people move from their places.

Zoom the lens closer to their faces
and you'll see only statues, marbled
purple flesh that stretches towards the sky.
Their red-vine eyes see no horizon
as they stay frozen, hooked
to the last moment of movement...

Look how this icy vastness
seems to have a hook and tie
to keep it stationed. How the houses
aren't limp, with some lit and others
darker than this world's dusk.

Leer and find that this void, this
scolding sweep of space
seems to have a design, as if
Death sighed a machine of breath
to do his bidding...

and all the void can do is stare back.

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