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Over the Axis

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Kath – 4.14.12

he comes home with earth and vitriol
spilling bloodied between his teeth, soft gasp
of courage, anger, fear
the quiet of the victim and
he will not speak, explain, condemn,
just sit and take her questing silence –
the gentle queries of mother's hands
running reverent over bruises.

she will tuck the hair
behind his ears, press soft
kisses to seeping eyelids,
sloping purpled nape and proud vertebrae
aching and coloured in battle
and she will tell him of Atlas, who holds the world
on shoulders broader than his fathers, how
Michael told Adam knowledge could
create paradise beyond God's Eden, and
that a mind is a gift and a burden to bear
when the world is oft so brainless.

she will draw him a bath,
press ice into skin, and
sit with him in warm shadow
until buzzing thoughts can still, whisper:

Gods, please, give me the strength
to let him find his own.
Wrote this on the train, going to a writer's workshop. Funny, the way things turn out.
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