4.
— Marina Burana
there are gradations of beauty in your silence
your body opens to the purple of a day dying
in its embers / stirred by the last effort of a word
uttered in disdain / you hold this life dear
and keep in the emerald of its wound the stillness
of millions of souls falling together you’re the Demiurge
your thumbprint fades in laughter and decay
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