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In My Dreams I Saw Serpents
September 19, 2019
Before, I imagined myself in half-states.
Gears tumbled from the backs of my
knees. I offered no resistance
ecstasy of the lonely Machine
trill of the dying saint.
I wrote poems in clay & heard the
tick of my heart. An immaculate
consumption; black bones peeled back
to their hooks.
Listen! Lord Clockwork
I shook to brass branches. My sword:
the eclipse of my spine. Golden-crowned.
Rain-weary. I maimed the kitchen tile dragon,
& took its skin.
© Kayla C., Burlington, NC
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