Michael McAloran

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Linger-

Where the eyes

Have been

I wish never to

Have been

Such was the silver

Of the absurd

The night dragged like

The pulse

The scream erased

No

Not erased I have…

Heavenly walls

Of bloody

Earth

You

I

That was somewhere

When

In the abandoned

Room

That stench

It was neither of the

Two of us

Sometimes

I don’t recall

You cannot remember

Either than I

As if to mock the

Silence

We mistook

No

Ever looking elsewhere

The shadow mocked

The walls

And so

There in the night

Breathed the

Whisper

Arduous marrow

Sonorous as a

Cadaver

Longing spliced

The remains

Devoured

Why in the earth

Did we linger?

 

 

 

 

Only-

The blood-shot

Eye

Thickens

With

Laughter

With the nudity of

Pulse

Yes I will gather

The

Night like a child

Where

Fallen to obstruct

Only

The absence

Survives

You

Not I

I am alone