Gasping for air

Indira Reddy
Poets Unlimited
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1 min readApr 20, 2017
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Dogma granted corporeal form — their missile
Filled with inane incoherent babbling
on matters unknowable to sententious
hunters. It drops. Toxic fumes imprint stitches
in flesh, the scars gleaming silver,
leaving the tainted gasping for air

-Excerpt from Sword from the Sestina Synthetica project on Chalkboard.

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Indira Reddy
Poets Unlimited

Endlessly fascinated by how 26 simple symbols can say so much…