Truncating the ritual

An old man with one eye

His right hand he hides inside

The folds of a tattered cloak

His robes likewise threadbare, to his fasted body fastened by a rope

Brought night by brumal minds

An attractive religion of bloodied stones and hopelessness.

In my favourite derangements

I imagined myself part of some fierce pack

Inside my mind rumbling sounds, as of pack ice breaking apart

Courses another charted, to disparate stars

To bring to boring worlds the vein-expanding arts of Mars

Causes and effects, ends chasing starts

Cruel April facing down xanthous March

Jaundiced legions with necks like neglected giraffes marching out

Long-necked legions with unpleasing faces

Jaundiced and hate-beleaguered.

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