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Plague of Sun's Ire

October 17, 2011
By lapisleaves DIAMOND, Durham, New Hampshire
lapisleaves DIAMOND, Durham, New Hampshire
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Favorite Quote:
"...I wish none of this had happened." "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."


Licorice beetles
crawling over a tumbling,
crumbling wasteland of rock,
burnt brown, under the
fierce eye of the butter
sun’s ire. The plethora
of pale sticks, plaguing
warm plateau, look like
bones, or old dry legs,
tossed meaninglessly onto
the brown chocolate land,
blistered and cracked.
The sticky sap has run
from the splits in the sticks;
the marrow run from the bones,
spilled and glazed against
the rock carpet.

The author's comments:
Go figure. Brown is such a strong color here.

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