morning prayer

hundred limp

white and yellow

cockatoo prayer flags

hang limp on

leafless tree against

crystalline sky

grasped still

by morning's frozen

fingers

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sys admin

yellow fat-stained

empty eyes

fail to register

swollen putrescent tongue

threatens to suffocate

shallow limping breaths

go-on

suck down another

bagel

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green spangled

cake morning for Mr Bloom

sugary pink

fairy floss sky

crunchy white

frosting

poo-poo

profiteroles

frozen plumpudding

icecream gumboots

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crystals

sparkling crystalline fingers

dance carefully

frigid steel gate

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dogbark

dogbark peels

baneful tongues of fog

sodden trees

black

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fogdog

baneful fogdog

echos black wet

bark peeling

sodden trunk of night

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