Thursday, March 28, 2013

Phlegethon

Round rafts drift, onyx.
From above, sunspots.

Passengers on each
cloaked in fuligin.

Invisible, ghosts.
Though they stomp their feet

the craft do not rock.
How they bleat in pain --

the heat.  The raspy
voice of a choir boy

extinguished too soon
inks in wisps:  grace notes

fluttering above
red rippled magma.

Interminable
when one considers

__________the Styx.

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