Ricin

 

English: Machine gun Maxim drawing 1905 Public Domain

  

  Jagged stone exterior
rugged face razor
corners cutting dirt
falling through its history
assembling in a mass
weathered lines and heaps
alluvial fan blades
   The first hit was free
intolerance coded
sedated DNA
the fog of war
its god and absence
truth conjecture
frozen hemispheres
spherical orbits
inches from your aura
   There’s a wind it’s bitten
through skin dry teeth
dragging blood across
dripping down the sand
she said parched
in the sun they ran
dripping mainlined mass
ideology, recovery
   The movement’s mass
its cataclysm waits
ice and chiseled earth
hollowed from within
dripping in the water
deferring judgment
 
MM 3.2022