Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Seventeen
Summer 2008
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The Anointing
Carand Burnet

To live before zero
When the ibex throws his horns like tar into the sun
You will only find that when it rains,
                      the buildings collapse into tears,
                            revealing their true burdens
As the prism's coppery edges direct the men with vacant
signs for faces,
      homes dispelling fog like boats, these howling
      sirens, children
tracing trenches
God, you are such a mute! so uselessly beautiful
Like how luminous the phantoms will be when this blackness
revolves no more.

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