by Logan Berry
An artery greets moonlight
Glinting off a scythe
Black blood splatters the pond
Where fermenting vapors hover
Over yellow frogs
Croaking dirges in the feculence
Everything weeps & sweats
Out here, where everything belches
Before collapsing:
Servers & skins devoured by mosses
Keeling to mud
The buzzing swarms crumpled & torn
By pincers, beaks, & tongues
Propelling digestion
In God’s infinite intestine
As drunk drifters sing & sway
To the wailing highway
Headlights slicing darkness
Accelerate into the horizon
Vanishing
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Logan Berry is the author of several books, most recently Doom is the House Without a Door. He lives in Chicago. X, Insta, website.
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