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Arteries ablaze with angers undo…

as the father recalls a single red mark on a sheet of snow

upon the ground which blankets body and bone

shrouded in the arms of a juniper tree

Materializing out of a mist of reprisal

A lofty bird sings a lullaby

to recant the deceitful and livid

and it’s acts now brutalize Marlene

Forever dead but calm with mother-true

shrouded in the arms of the juniper tree