let us not think of them as barbarians by Peter Midgley

Author:Peter Midgley [Midgley, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NeWest Press
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

a history of dust

this ink of my body, bleached into the desert —

taste it: taste this ink and this earth.

go on your hands and knees,

fold your hands in supplication under the browned hide

where the desert sand throbs a darkened red.

with your soiled fingernails, red monk, utter a prayer

of the desert. squat like a succulent on the ramparts of the land,

bleed words and taste the earth, the red oil seeping through your lips.

smell it. smell the salty blood of your words.

feel the earth, its textures and its joys weeping in your mouth,

mingling with your blood.

taste its sorrows, its heartache.

hear the rattling bones of the ancestors in poisoned wells.

taste this earth saturated with the ink of many bodies.

taste this history of dust.

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