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Down in the Dirt v066



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Crawling
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Crawling Through the Dirt
grampus

Devin Wayne Davis

the church
urges
us

to appreciate
the elders
—through

these stories of abraham,
and adam before him ...

to wait,
for what

felt every bit
like 900 years ...
until

pater familias is dead;
and timing
has a lot to do with it.

fiendish ...
seeing anyone hold on
for so long. now,

the eyes of that matriarch,
who should’ve followed his, will

also close.
as two brothers—
perhaps sisters

—run things.
off into the wasteland,
an outclassed rival goes ...

bloody,
unknown ...

this sickness might
as well depart. then

survive,
ripen ...

isn’t likely
that you’ll find
life—but death; after all,

fists do not knock
on a rock cottage door

—riveted
in the wood;

nor come in
the womb of a cave,

to which
you may have

returned
—dripping

with leprosy;
or radiating
another spell ...

so you
perfect

that walk, the stoop, well
-over the course of your years ...

the voice,
echoing in a head
& bat’s ears ...

there’s something about
blindly finding the old path

—unenlightened, bearing
both humility&pride ...

when self-sufficiency’s
been a venerable mentor.

the dogs,
they sniff out

this strange plot;
their masters

witness magic ...
small cooking pot,

sundry plants
many animals hung ...

rituals get twisted;
drawn back, &
turned black

as fire ...
out of the pit,

and hearth, leaps
to bring it back home ...

hunters, that gang-
upon an ogre,
a golem, or medusa,

warn offspring they’re not

far from legendary

monsters.



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