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Sodium

by Steven Dark

 

Beheaded legless witless feet
wander
the aimless thoughtless
street
where sodium sabres pierce the misty night
with horned and sacred crescent
a faint and saintly halo
the crown atop the sinful cobbled stone
intimate thorns of amber glow
above
and so to below

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