CASCADE

Peter sings
& water flows swiftly.

Something within him...

Lights brighten
then burn dim...

Arms raised in armor -
many arms -
maybe fifty.

Waiting for us to
wake & be warm again...

Waiting for hands to
scold & then hold again.

Scorpion ticking...
Cats sickly licking...

Rupture & burn
with blasted return.

Kings of madness -
Kings all alone.

Kings once alive -
Awake now from stone.


Written By Jason Wright
DECEMBER 27TH, 2001

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