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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3894 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Graven Image Uncovered Jeffery Feezle To find a skull buried face down is catastrophic luck, the kind no Digger ever wants to uncover. I brushed away the dusty sins of man before striking the dusky portrait with finishing camel hairs. She could have been queen and we: merely kneeling peasants disturbing a grave. In royal arms was held her legacy -- an infant cocoon that had perished with her at first sigh of birth. She is now a Boston museum freak show - gawked at, ahhhhed over, then overlooked as the next exhibit makes forgetters of tourists. But the baby - it lies where first found left in the arms of another Mother, covered and forgotten again – one more vagrant soul that has become the mantle of earth. ---------------------------------------- (Original version - yikes!) Graven Images Uncovered With brief harummph’s of necromancer spells I saw the crown’s diminished shine break earth: angry, slitted mud-eyes steamed over with clouds looking up, always up. To find a skull buried face down is catastrophic luck, the kind no Digger ever wants to uncover. I brushed away the dusty sins of man gingerly with artistic strokes not unlike painting a background on canvas before striking the portrait with finishing camel hairs. We lifted the past into a transmuted present, upon cheesecloth shrouds permeated with ancient dried fluids. She could have been queen and we were merely peasants disturbing her grave kneeling in historic awe before her. In her arms she held her legacy an infant cocoon that had perished with her at first sigh of birth. I despoiled the dusky majestic terra bones with tears borne from regret and sorrow. She is now a freak show in a Boston museum gawked, admired, ahhhhed over, then overlooked as the next exhibit makes forgetters of tourists. But the baby - it lies where first found as it should be: left in the arms of another Mother, covered and forgotten again - another vagrant soul that has become the mantle of earth. |
