RESOLUTION

© 1997, 1999 Clinton Cyril Somerton

with thanks to my dear cousin, Mark A. Russell

darkness hung
long, strangled
senses groped
tangled cloak
shedding ruined spells
gaping mouths
choked
crumbling incantations

sky careened
stars cried
moist prayers
crashed like siren songs
visions
shred to pieces
by the razor shafts of dawn

long, limp but drying
stand now
and face
the roaring Sun

stomachs blazing
eyelids squeezing
peeling smiles from blind lips
smile
blink
burn
alive
erupting orange frontier
a blister
in the giant death of the Sun