Aftermath

open is air
that breaks in
	slices
from non-toxic waste
       on roofs, in clouds
	   flying
	down
	the
	ladd
	er
to conform to the
	  light
        from the greyness of hell
           faded ashes and smoke
                and pupils who
                  never shot their magma
                      at meteors
		in assumptions that they were merely yearly snow
                          now their aftermath
                                                            is a saving sage
		for the sticky river to powder herself in
		        and look at herself in the
	                        one-way mirror of her delusions of ice
                                                   and cry
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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