Lichen
a corona of birch
twigs eta carinae
our helix of the dreamless North
rocks never once
thrown from their shoulders dismantling
petrified forests lungs deep
cavities pillars our prophetic crop
no one walks
on our snow no one
has seen us so much
as twitch
cased in psilocybin
exoskeletons we drum
the silent mouth of the tundra bladeless
mantra death
to a thousand halls
of skies we see your nomadic tribe
splintered from the coals
to the coals
boar tusk
to bacillus in one proto-
plastic convulsion
herding bedrock
towards stardust unlocking zero's mineral key
covering everything
with everything
you forget
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