the sanguine seas
of bitter truthscorn
dance languidly
across the windows
of divine misfortune

raven feathers
whipped into daggers
like malignant scars
flutter across
barren wastelands of the heart

a scourge
of amniotic waves
amidst the half-truth horrors
impregnating themselves
across fallow virtues

reticent rejoinders
bridge past insults
to future imperfections
like a carpenter
beset by seizures