Flax - Julia Allen
flax
whips
air
flickering red at the edges
and as for Dionysus
(in articulo mortis)
at the point of death
a veil falls
over the eyes
light flickers
over the eyelids
and as for that statue
that you pray to
that inarticulate Mater
you pray to, say
flax
cracks at the water
and lashes
at the water’s edge
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