Where No Light Breaks

aDarkerMind

where no light breaks.

a summer lost in a salt-marsh spinning silk.

where once all eyes of April

saw only green beneath the shadow of a crab

now flaunt their flesh of red and white in chase

clinging to the flies too far from home.

somewhere above the trees

now laughs the many skulls in deep retreat.

my eyes, my heart, my opiods. my drugs

cling to life on the jelly of a moth.

all heirs recite with caution 

each word that climbs too high to breathe upon

to walk the thirteen steps to where I lie

as quiet as a candle in the corner of a womb.

my odours bleed as loud as death allows.

my skin as bright as turmoil 

burning like a pilgrim with a table-spoon of salt.

no borders left to cross.

no love-bite on my lung to decompose.

I am beside myself in an oil spill

with gods' green hands

and a thousand chromosomes;

 

 

  • Author: Melvin James (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: November 10th, 2024 09:14
  • Category: Unclassified
  • Views: 24
  • Users favorite of this poem: Teddy.15
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  • Teddy.15

    Hello dear Melvin, those lines really stick out for me intrigued to say the least, your imagery as it always is, its simply a masterpiece

    somewhere above the trees

    now laughs the many skulls in deep retreat

    🌹

    • aDarkerMind

      thank you Teddy.

      good to see you again, and I hope all is well there.

    • jarcher54

      I must say I was carried along by the force of your images... I don't understand them all, but I feel them, and that's more interesting.

      • aDarkerMind

        thank you for your kind words jarcher.

        very much appreciated.

      • sorenbarrett

        Melvin this has the field of Bob Dylan on LSD. Most interesting combination of the images Debbie Vokes, a Bosch like picture.



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