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Detonated Forms

Angel wait in detonated forms 
black ragged thorns wrapped 
around stained cruciforms…

Singular saints dark faint 
forms hide in corners not 
washed in candlelight 
as crows sit in irregular rows.  

Take flight from skeletal spines
high in some ancient cathedral spire
encrusted in black oblique forms…

The distance along the seams 
of reality stretching high 
into some deserted 
distant American midnight!  

Lost in thoughts of empire 
that see the continental fires blaze 
forever as the clock strikes the hour…

Of midnight, as the angels wait 
in abstraction of oblivions forms, 
on thrones wrapped in thorns.

Deep in eternal night
watch the funeral pyre climb 
higher around the cruciforms.

Distance dire angels wait 
in that oblique obsolete and desolate form, 
black ragged thorns wrapped 
around blackened cruciforms…

A faded billboard 
      boldly claims the coming reign along
                 the highways of some
                       Mad American Empire…



















await war with desire…!

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