The Guilt Song of the Anunna

1. ‘She is a 
storm
 that brings no rain
  She is a light    that brings no dawn.’
2. ‘The ways of a 
witch
 happen in darkness;
     all is use, all is 
disregarded
.’
3. ‘May she hang from a hook
     til blood drips from every fingernail.’
4. ‘We hooked her like a cloak
     we hung her through her ankle bones.’
5. ‘A melody of her bones’ crack,
    hear: the 
creak
 of hardening flesh.’
6. ‘The hardening of worlds
     the drying of the lies of a lifetime’
7. ‘Death neverending:
     the 
darkness
 fixed in every moment.


  


1. ‘She is 
pitch
 that blackens the bearer,
    a waterskin that chafes the carrier.’
2. ‘The ways of a 
witch
 are foolish,
     although she might give as well as take.’
3. ‘It was brilliant bright judgment   like    geese frozen into a lake
     it fell around her like icicles.’
4. ‘We have hung her now with her feet high
     see how low her head hangs.’
5. ‘See how 
worlds
 are turned and flesh rots,
    but this is something new: bats’
6. ‘Bats and babies: entering from this angle
     breeds new worlds’
7.’Transpositions, just eclipsed:
     from the darkness of caves, truth flies out.
-All flee-

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