CAPTIVE

Blue angel
of stubble fields filled
with spiders' poison.
Arachnids spill
from drowning mouth.
Wild, bristling legs
wild words
she gurgles.

Child of deceptions
blue-skinned captive.
Strangely entangled
in webwork of terror.
Mysteries perverted
the meadows'
chill slumber.
Now evil awakened
through human intention.
The rotting of new skin
slow eating
of hearts.

Blue angel of oozing—yellow
haired savioress.
Scissored with insects
odd wounds
of unnature.
The multi-eyed order
of criminal violence.
The many-eyed ranking
of death- 
spinning watchers.

This I have witnessed
a man with a jaw bone
in twilight gray passage 
in morning cold shadow
a man in a wheelchair
her body 
ripped naked.
Half frozen in dewdrops.
In salt shards, in teardrops.
Her lips, bleeding bubbles.
Her lips
edged in ice.

— David Sparenberg

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