Missing Since November by Melina Raven Maness DieboldTwitching swirling dancing unfurling
rods and circles, flagellate, propragate
Grey
raisin-ed, taut aridty where once was viscosity
Retina lake defied, denied of liquid
left putrid swampiness
Beige
Seething, heaving, glistening beige legs and pillow body
casings barren, microscopic teeth bearing
Larvae alive
Black
wrinkled, devoid of humanity, expression
just necrotic, erratic, never again erotic
(except for those few who'd deem him so)
Brown
Swirling water, lake-leg branching out
touching farms and raping banks
Muddy lips kissing trees as they blush
Green
Hillside quaking stands
wind-falling, crestfallen, Solemn
Cows grazing, bush-hog brazen, coaxing summer
the coquette that she is
Blue
Sky blankets the scenery
the solitary cemetary
the one-grave owning stream mausoleum
with Clouds as Coffin, Air as Eulogy
White
an under-the-table elixir
Dropout created, a drop-out's life fixer
Dead to all while high
Dead to all, forever and all
this night
01/12/2004 Author's Note: Ode to a guy that was murdered b.c he was about to surrender the names of drug dealers in my town.
Posted on 01/12/2004 Copyright © 2025 Melina Raven Maness Diebold
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