"Nekyia"

Nekyia



Blood flows-
A mixture of
Salt and water,
fats and minerals,
Imagined,
In dream, vision, and thought,
Illuminated
Across a horizon
Of a sulfurous sea,
Seen,
In the center,
An archipelago,
Where a severed head,
Like a pirate’s rum cask,
floats its metaphors into
an alchemy of fluids
That lubricates
the crossroads
where outer meets inner.


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