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Muse In Red
Muse in red to a mongrel blue.
Blood on stone that yonder finds.
Reptile's light to the healing bend.
Precarious fires for cooling minds.
Connected words
snake & flower.
Serrated tongue for honeyed slaying.
Clever beauty cleft & splayed.
Stuck on point to glowing ember.
A salamandrine crawling under.
Hell in spades for poets ablaze.
Toxic shade in savage grace.
Defense & pride yet torn asunder.
Talk & torch to dark unwelcome.
Those darting beads,
miss & failure.
Heart & heat in glamoured grip.
Our rage came keen in icy stead.
Blood from stone tomorrow dawns.
Now cooled to blue, my muse in red.
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Author's Note
Always liked this one. Spring of 2015, though originally written a few years earlier.
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