Thursday, November 3, 2011

Wax to Ashes

©Stacie Sandall


I kneel in the ashes
of my miscounted blessings,
teething on the flesh
of my inner paper.
My shriveling, scraping hand
erases a blinding globe.
Wax,
secreting dirt,
surrounds itself with black bricks.
A rusted wall
gives in to the red tree of darkness.


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