Thursday 6 June 2024

The hunger of the forest

Speared by the trident of the sun

on the hill overlooking Athens

the beast’s heart grows faint

 

The smell of charred bodies and wood

ancient and still as the rocks

weighs on the senses


The blood spangles

each drop mirroring

earth, sky and sea, and

the victor, legs akimbo


The hunger for the forest

equalled by the one of,

ravenous in its devouring of time ,

gorges up on the lives

lying there, standing there

never sated, it seems


The beast’s vitreous eyes

a glow of melancholy and ire 

the spectacular light in between

flickers like a moth’s wings

set afire on a torch


That very same flame which set

the hill overlooking Athens

ablaze like a thousand suns.

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