Life in Necropolis: Four Letters
Candy ShueDear Farmer,
Are your fields haunted?
Did one clay distinguish
itself from another?
This clay fertile, that clay
ghost? So many souls
adding their mercury
blood to your soil.
Were you angry when
the shovel’s tip stuck
fast in the ground?
A rock deep in the dirt
and hard. Did you
watch the sunlight’s
fast fading? Your skin
knowing before your
eyes—Earth, but a harder
alchemy—an army laying
claim to your home.
Issue 12
Minority vs. Majority
Fall 2010
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