Blood the ground eats

A rush of blood no love, however motherly, could stanch

A sounding blow drowned his rope-tied foundling robes

The ground below groaned, blushing like a russet standard

In abandon, Eden’s blasted heath opened beneath their standing feet

Sending up reeking blasts of massive heat from Sheol’s meat-fed fires.

A turf-wreathed maw full of rarely seen teeth smiled vilely, greenly;

Sheathed dentistry a heathered, sucking bogtop endlessly keeps,

Beside its king bones, shit-like butterlumps, and chariot spokes.

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