Wednesday, June 22, 2022

(Plath Colossus 1

The dry incense of your day approaches.

Smug centuries move through you.

The shadow of broken history

nourishes you.

Suicides inherit the family.

Spiders on strings

converge with your gifts to heaven,

while wolves quit a difficult borning.

-R. Bremner

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