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carnal autopsy

by Rachelle Howe

you were there amidst the lost.

i beheld only half your face.
the rest, pre-worn and plastic,
dwelled in the shadows, a testiment.
you recessed into the folds of macabre,
double-stitched within
the sanguine red that slicked down,
down.
arms empty and stained;
sacrificed blood dripping.

there was a time
i would have believed
with fangs barred and
tongues full with rot.
i watched your insides
coil from the heat,
wax skin melting.
melting

when the death bell rang.
melting
while the chant ran deep.
deep from veins and butchered wrists.

but you were there
when the forsaken
forgot their birthrights.

there, atop mount carmel.
witness to a black sun,
and a god that could not answer.

09/12/2004

Author's Note: not sure why i haven't posted this sooner.

Posted on 09/12/2004
Copyright © 2024 Rachelle Howe

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Lindsay Sanders on 09/13/04 at 02:32 AM

you effortlessly weave stark images into piercing thoughts-- & you are effective as hell.

i miss reading your work rachelle. i need a "poetry by rachelle day." soon.

Posted by Max Bouillet on 09/14/04 at 03:28 AM

Tremendous energy behind this piece. This verse kinda infects you with thought and emotion.

Posted by Laura Doom on 09/15/04 at 10:41 PM

to a silhouette - singing, too close to the sun, of a godless mythology
magnificently barred fangs...

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