O WORMWOOD

"O Wormwood," Montana BLACK spray paint, art marker, acrylic paint on 4" x 6" watercolor postcard.

One of the cards I sent out as part of my "O Eschaton" series of poems for the 2021 Poetry Postcard Fest.

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O WORMWOOD

O Wormwood mixed with gall
a foretaste of the famine to come

a descent, a fall from the starred heavens
space and time buckling beneath your wait

your delay, your deus absconditus—
the watchfires of the beacons will be lit

once more and then again
night upon night without moon

without constellations with which
to navigate our way back to you.

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All artwork and poems by Troy Kehm-Goins © 2021 Troy's Work Table Publishing.