Golden Ouroboros

Mental fissures clogged fresh whispers made-up
with well-suited pursuits by drop-line and green
kelp on decks of gilded reverberations--to leave snake-eyed
us--as yet still parts needing to be insepected.

Thus meter by natural meter, go to meander through
emptied mud into Vegas rivulets--awkward pelts, docked lips,
eye-lash and fists,--every root is trampled fuel to the other
who's just over-turning leaden shutters

of the mind's asleep eye. Go sit beside corrasion
for simple checks with lowly cannibal fingers and wrists,
hungry folds viscious attachments, the pangs
of uninterrupted movement. Gather taught chains

shackled with ease about the steel of the windlass-bar.
Should nails anchor blood-red such coral-colored sadness
into flesh and muccus--as quicksilver scales level the deep
and peer-like towers foam its black, mercurial manes...

by Tommy Soden

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