Aonu,Ne Mtntttoe

DrcHorouv (cennus reo)

She'll sink her claws across the plain And sway her tail through tawny grain. The slow will grow To speed in teeth Till dinner'r lyrrg at her feet. We tore the earth, her ribs and spine And hammered a painted skin defined By gaseous breath And gears and wheels, A corrugated beast of steel. Her heart is in the step and soft, The snarl, purr, and slinking pause. Her heart becomes Her will, a still, A song before her lunge, and kill. In plumes of smoke we climb the stair, To rise above the raw and bare. Weve left the dirt, The sand and wheat, Our hunting hearts crave more than meat. She feeds her pride with froth and bones, A ripping, snapping on the stones, In love and flesh She's sound and bound, For hungry cubs she won her crown. We built our throne and forged our claws Weve tried to rise, but fall because Our skins of tin Are feral masks, A primal crown that's built to last.

Rtcrurc Wnaatocx Aonrarva Mta.a,Noe :RM

Penrs

Within that quivering moment, as the flames of twenty fireworks lanced across the sky, a counterpoint of memories, faces, names, and landscapes coalesced before his eye. A brush of hands, a joyous swaying mass of ostinato voices, and two minds in fiery concert over crackling grass these currents rushed together as his lines of thought clicked into place. The heavens whirred, celestial gears commenced a graceful spin, and as he passed the golden band to her, a golden light diffused from her to him whose pure effulgence proved our greatest power beneath the blinking of the Eiffel Tower.

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Zop Aotutuvsot't /, .v

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You had the crown from the start If Picasso were to put your eyes where your mouth is He could not hide you Nor the years of calculated visage Made from the type of things people write songs about Paint pictures of Lose words to describe

A mutation in our genetics Crafted you with Scandinavian fragility A bloodline away, I wallow in inadequacy Spin threads of inferiority

When we splashed in kiddy pools You, of pale skin and blue eyes, shimmered, Commanded Earth with a single gaze, Stole the diamonds in the water as your own Our family clung to you like a virus Grooming your waved hair Flitting over your pearly skin Melting at your fierce-tongued laugh

I followed you Hoping your beauty would caramelize my veins Send shockwaves through my cells Set me free of my biology

I liquefied my envy into poison And slipped it into your drink As my fingers trembled, patience

But my efforts have suffocated me Swallowed me in a mournful pit of surrender I bow And grant you sovereignty again. Zor, Kovu-rcruts

Frnsr Wonos

Barely, I balance on the soles of my feet Before I could rumble the chords of my breath. Stale thoughts boil brightly behind anxious kissers. I cry out dribble, pacified by mothers nipple. The tongue,like a twitching carcass decays the language in my head. My sphere, filled with oracles of oration, Yet I preach moans to ears who cant translate. My hair gets longer, my bones get longer. Cloud bleached pebbles line my gums. My spit factory is overcrowded with fangs Fangs,like thumbs, evolve us from howling animals. Conjectures released from a whining pillory given clear passage to join the waves of the world. Glowing dark red, my organ of taste revived I symphonize an alphabet. The voice in my skull runs counterpoint with terms that tickle my uvula. A ghostly transparency between meaning and sound Unveils my internal lexicon always to be heard.

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