Hooded men seen walking the streets during air raids

All straights contorted

Bombs stripped away the paint to the boards

You’ll all recall ignoring calls to address the border hordes

Effaced like writing on a wind-facing grave

Most of the skin cladding her face

Her Claddagh ring melted, its gold made a minor lake

The white bones like the fate knowing tokens of a mage, rearranged

By the awful smelting heat of that demon-stirred blaze.

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