Augury
Because you must weather the storm, even as the storm weathers you.
You hold fast within
sediment
meant for me.
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Its serene, the way you teeter,
caressing the cusp of something volatile--
insoluble to my diurnal tides.
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Your sunlight flickers in waves,
//
somehow equally a horrible vestige, a glacier,
a godsend, a flame.
//
My hands reach to you --
a lantern glimmering off droplets
like a thousand small mirrors.
There, amidst turbulent storms,
//
My body plunges.
//
I shake.
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Quiet. Cold. Afraid.
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Muscles, mind submerged.
Senses obscured.
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You do not speak. You--the lamplight,
the twilight beyond. You only
stare at the deluge
slowly rising.
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I cannot weather
this storm. I cannot lift myself
from shallows. The floodwater splices
skin
//
already skinned.
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It dredges body deeper by each wrist.
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There is no convalescence--
nothing inside nor beyond these trenches--
nothing but a pelting,
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pelting,
//
pelting storm.
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Then, I see it in the gutters:
particles churning
like a light mending -- shadows
bending to your will. It bows
to your feet, quelling
waves as if tides are an entity
meant to obey.
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I'm desperate
for the tides to obey.
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Its unfair, the way you glow
at my jagged form as I limp towards you
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like a nightmare...
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a creature of self-slaughter, self-taught
to ladle sediment into itself
until it is no longer
discernible
amidst the dredges--
a twisted image of limbs distorted
by oceans scrambling
amongst terrible weather--
//
Yet--you, a contronym,
a phantom of both glacier
and flame, extend sunlit hands
and dredge mine
ashore.
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//
You find me. You,
an augury luminescent. A glimmer
amongst the rain.
About the Creator
Corvus
Corvus is a kaleidoscope of Gothic word-craft, stuck somewhere within the hurricanes of prose and poetry and wrung out on each page. Find more fragments of the love letter on their website, corvuslove.
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Congratulations on your win!! This was such a gorgeous read :)
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