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"Red": a poem by Joseph Langdon

Red

By Joseph Langdon

 

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rocks evolve pink spots leprous

the antecedent names

cleft/canyon

being before meaning

patchwork cliffs aspire

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invasive

the well-trained stubs of spring

alien round green mounds of burro dung

the carters’ unnatural

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hoof-scrape stitches up the desert silent

 

In one red image stamped

a boot unmakes the face of God

counter-evolutionary

 

on 

down

into the long wash

 

Joseph Langdon is a writer living in Las Vegas.