War’s Gnawing Worms Chewing Worldroots

Cavalry saddled, dappled flanks foam lathered 

Rattling at their sallying, fracturing gatling action 

Cleopatra’s fleet abandons field at Actium, ending the team.


Teeming with corpses, sunrise orpiment solifies creamy pinttop waves bloodfoamed

Octavian, having smashed Marc Antony’s maritime armies, consolidates

Pheasant-fletched arrows along a dead soldier’s ridge like fangs in a fine-toothed comb.

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