NaPM April 24, 2018

[Knot]

Here's the smell of the blood still.


All the perfumes of Arabia
will not mask the stench of this:
Of burning black-smoke deserts,
libraries of ash and tortured flesh.

'Hell is full of good wishes, good
desires', well this road you know:
It leads from Nineveh, to Raqqa
to Palmyra, to the Drowning Sea,

to the unwelcoming heart of you.
To your clean hands.


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