RUPTURE STONE Eileen Earhart Oldag ―rupture and gasp sick swollen gut oppression bursts its bile over all over us again we gasp disease of latworms power disorders us disorders human natural order sweat of green lies power over justness infects rabid dog power over glory all glory undone rancid power putreies its own raw meat spews sickness sickened we gasp— ―rupture and low Earth eats itself belches back ire ash old form molten to unformed too raw too sharp too hard to be life but patient 2,000 years if a limber pine has rooted in this crater work is underway this world a promise remade promise ocean cold salted crown of reef elastic sky cloud stretched rebounded promise jungle rain forest sedged seep ferned spring waterfall mossed uplift mountain mesa plateau down-cut gorge litter of loods promise earth a bunting bag or shroud promise ire reining purity of ire—
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