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Stung by the tail of a scorpion. . .

Jet Plane - from "Incident in Silver", by A. M. SULLIVAN (by permission).

Stung by the tail of a scorpion
Gravity loosens its grip
On the hide of a hellion
Who scorches the sky
Through a curve of silence
While sound is a laggard
In the tangled air.

The monster with open mouth
Sucks food from runnels of light.
Washing blue space
Through a furious gut.

Tiptoe on the flattened world
The watchers are asking their eyes
If a dragon that swallows flame
Can burrow a hole
In the sagging roof of the morning.

Upon a ladder of smoke
The monster touches the zenith
But gravity roused from its spell
Reaches toward rafters of sunlight
And drags the scorpion down
To a crevice of earth.

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