SLOWLY THE FAINTED DUST SETTLED

each fist turns as religious chants
echo the choir's screams
urged in death the disgusted breeze calms
dismissed by springs sharp birth

this mirrored in deaths alien lands
civil poverty grasps the finger born in the bone
so many blossoms
slowly fail in a morning sky

the clay sticks to silver spade
and earth open realm
wet in a cloak and virgin rain

sliced beaten grass
flickers in candles fame
as I laid as an image
undiscovered in ghostly mind
explained skies
drip in slow uncertainty

maternal grief blasts the marble stories
gentle cliffs raise a suns fear
violent injuries
eager in terror clouds cover

How foolish normality
cruel in written speech
black in the magic
mind projected in sober reflection

the blossoms lay still
movement not corrected
stillness without ripple
slowly the fainted dust settles