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Candle Ending at Both Burns

Alex S. Johnson

So you saw me leaving. What did you think, that
All my ghosts had tales to tell? These can be found
In his books, in the snapped shafts of wand, buried in the ocean.

The magic roughed us up. We have adjourned, barely
Intact, to rub our wounds until they gleam. Our genies,
Unbottled, kiss the scars till new life shoots. And our hands
Grip the tall masts, cursing the Captain with his terrible hooks,
His eye-teeth gleaming. Yet still he commands

Ships emptied of sinking rats. He groans as Necro phases shift, romancing the terrible.

Ivan more than I can halve, presumptive of a whole that’s somewheres else. My candle ending at both burns, you’re welcome to the parts are left, upon the shelf.
—March 15, 2013

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