The Insect Baby

Unearthly markings on the
moist earth toned shell skin
are, surprisingly,
from the earth we've not
spent the hours to see.

I get a view of it
through my poor lens,
the buried, small, unhappy
earth, away from the sun,
separated from God, 
where the devil's cohorts live.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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