4 - Pankratea

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(Painter: Francisco Goya)

(Painter: Francisco Goya)

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Pankratea,

her new name hissed, 

as she stood up 

and breathed it in. 

She breathed the world,

eating atoms, 

drinking black birds -- 

touching -- while she 

never once aged

and her skin wrapped 

itself, around 

which had at first

bound itself to 

her dry desert, 

and they mocked names. 

The men from bars,

who do not care

for the black hole, 

or their black holes, 

or the below 

as it bellows 

beneath us all- 

And we do not 

care for trespass

rr where the mind 

may wander on 

through Old Hinnom. 

Pankratea 

licked my wounds clean 

and hissed strangers

away from me.

They said she died, 

diseased from war,

but she stood as 

tall as before 

and her eyes wept 

for me to hold 

her, as she slipped, 

and her rotting 

flesh disappeared. 

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