Limestone Defeat (A Surreal Poem) Poem by Bryan Riley

Limestone Defeat (A Surreal Poem)



Breathe songs of apparition
into the ears of cave-dwelling
rodentia; nothing fierce as
neanderthal mouse

Hard as the diamond that
broke the heart of glass.
We play in the citrus hollow;
the limestone defeat

Snakes will come up and
eat you slowly as you gnaw
on the soft marrow-bone of
wisdom is the key to ultimate
closure of censorship

Carnal desires take the
place of windswept fantasy
and the bees that wander
through the violation of flowers
sleep well through the long
dark winter

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Bryan Riley

Bryan Riley

Salem, Massachusetts
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