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Arden Gifford

Arden Gifford

Collapse to promise of fate
Wanting a matter of dark
For only stars coming near
Stay close at any rate
Countless voids to embark
Welcome something to fear 
 
Neither warmth nor the only sail
Dried seeds for the nightingales
Eternally a loss sorrowful mother
Denying the coming of another
Fabric woven her love is neat
Growing for her undead wheat
 
See here only through hollow thyme
Seeded pathways of liminal stone
Woman of hardship ruling once mine
She will seal the burned bone
 
Pour the libations to only her
Warmed comfort cup of fur
Set the table drink the wine 
It will all be her timely fine
Grow acanthus on the steppe 
Returning where she left
 
Set from the shell of hallow 
Of the poor mind to follow
Bitter that she once swallow
She will embrace her wallow
 
Greeted by her curse
Sought the end or worse
Before never to fall
Dancing under the gall 
The maidens her mother
Bear it not by any other

A Bronco Story. Submissions are from the Western Michigan University community.

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