LIGHT & SHADE - AND THE OTHER THING

Earth and air smell of change
smell of fear
'for none now live
who remember loss.'
Facts well known
by those who choose to know.

Life no higher than
beating heads
cowered all
in one direction
watched over by machine horizons
ringing tilted sky
dissolve in terrified darkness.

Unhinged doorways hollow-up
as one disguised upright
funnels dark boundaries
into light
alluding shrouded beauty
to gleaming visceral.

She can whiten bones with
a glancing look.