Smithereens Press Chapbooks SP9 - 'Kodalith' by David Lloyd | Page 15

Mantle
Rock breaks the living. The living
Wrap stone with all their new
Brutalities: root, blast, frack.
In the breaker’s yard, bodies
Bend in the wind. We rattle
Their bones in the crown of
A hat. We rattle. We raffle
The mantle. It shears like
A sea on the shore of the living.

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