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My Hunter • The Simpleton • Through a Mirror Darkly • Notes • The City • Resolve • Non-Poetry • Mental Blocks • Quartu
The Epic of Heart and Mind • The Insatiable Hunger • The Vanishing • Drive-by Change of Self • Our Every-Hero
Just Some Stray, Scurrying Thoughts • Darkness • Creativity's Whimsy • Death
All Writings and Images Copyright © Court Bennett 2007
court@courtbennett.com
Darkness

Ask not why
For who can grasp
The chain scrape clanks and homicidal shrieks
Echoing up from the oily hearts of men?

Rail not
Against those unreasonable
For tender-green willows
Razor-shorn from the warm, sandstone cliffs
Know only
It is the manic mayhem of murder
Dark-eyed men cling to most gladly
Their barest, base natures
Would shout down Heaven’s trump!

At Hell’s edge
Some are already beyond
The outstretched pleading reach
Of the crystalline saviors hand

And what is more
With scathing, scaly venom
Would strike and devour
That salutary friend.
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