rotting

[Sparkydashforth]

Like this. It gets down into the microbial simmering of life and death.

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The crack in her ancient voice
repeats, dully echoing in the hollow
of her trunk, blanketed in soft green...............Her cracked voice repeats what exactly?
Her dents cave in, subsiding
into holes and heaps of mush.
Crumbles gather in the dips;
microbes clamber through the litter................slushy, grubby and real.
She was once an upright bastion,
proud of all whom she gave life to.
Now millions, just born, crawl through
her splayed and broken corpse....................Love these last lines.


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The crack in her ancient voice
repeats, echoing in the hollow
of her trunk, blanketed in soft green.
Her dents cave in, collapsing.
Crumbles gather in the cracks;
microbes clamber through the litter.
She was once an upright bastion,
now millions crawl through
her splayed and broken corpse.