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They peeled the bark

Where the fangs grew,

A monstrosity, lurching from the sky to ground.

The fangs sunk in beside

The flash of knife, a rusty nail penetrating and scraping.

The hearts-tongue lizard split

and lapping at the bronciole branches,

dry and barren skeletal trees

full of screeching oil slick feathers.

The gasps came in bone breath

holding up the rib of moon flushing.

Crimson tears trickle out of the budding.

Ravens heads have broken ground;

brazen beaked braziers of black flames

envisioning a web of fingers on the horizon's dissolving road

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