morning sun
on the bloodspattered stairs
exhausted dog
© Rachel Green April 2021
The Musician at the End of The Cemetery
she tunes the dead:
cadaver skin stretched taut
in chromatic scales of putrefaction
sounded with hammers of bone;
sinews tightened by heat and salt
until a carrion call is made;
a carillon of corpses
to pluck upon the heartstrings
and when her masterpiece is complete
she will fashion a clarion
of bladders and intestines properly cured
and herald the last battle
to end the world
© Rachel Green 2010
first published in Shot Glass Journal
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