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"Rifka"
- Tammara Shoemaker

"Eternal Valentine"
- Thomas Ellis
"Predation"
- Stephen Gros
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"Predation"
author: Stephen Gros

climb, climb through time
up, up, UP eternity's branches
to the very twigs of the future,
there you'll find the predator,
his talons are eagles, his eyes fierce
jewels
lick his grizzled, warted flesh and find
your god,
swallow the man whole.
swallow your head.
digest your thoughts.
wash them down with the blood
of the righteous
and sweat of the unclean.
these brittle fingers will snap under
your weight as you fall down, down
into the past. into the predator's
gaping maw, he waits on both ends.
die die screaming like you're being born.

 
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