From Where We Gathered

A Story by Perdition

I held a moment
Large as silence
Waves
Injected over me
Electron spilled irony
Exploding
White blind euphoria
A dagger in memory that will never do

Peering her silence
To a depth of ocean
I regained a humble strength

Violent
Gray factory smoke elegies of dawn
Clock windings
A mockery
Among the blooms of thistle
Debris covered
Pink howling shores
And there
The last wild flamingo
Cracking
Into sandy bits of sky
Shady blue tears of balsa

In this
We hid our
Gods of arrow
Our blueprints of viral fate
Delta
Thick with
LA sunrise

It was now
A wad of nightmare
They spit into your hair
A face in the web
Where we gathered to
Kill with dreams again
These moments
I held
Wide
As streets of lilac

Wide as death wed ocean
Crawling to lie beside you
Grafted with
The last grains flamingo
Singing bright the odes
We became death to children
Cancer from another shore