the mighty whims
the bleeding abused
those who remember
twist and gnarl
in the winter wind

furtively
staccato
lagrimas
flow down

wizened
darkened
flesh

still beautiful
storied and deep
increasingly
complex

organismic
landscape

slopes and peaks

gestational pools
fermenting fonts

the individual
an unknown colony
for dark passengers
current and charge

co-habitation
symbiosis
mutation
synthesis
diversification

we create
persist

thrive and survive
mixing, mutilating
testing our limits

coming together

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