footnote to the above thousand words:The sky is soaked with animals. i taste their musk when i breathe. they breed above me till the sunset streams their blood down the throat of the horizon and it falls on hiroshima, on the other side of the world. the sky, itself, is consuming them, i realize. it slowly eats at their flesh like toxic quicksand. they are drowning in the stuff. at first i am horified, but now all i feel is the weight, the unbearable heaviness of the blood of lions, the unbearable crushing of 10,000 feet. i am suffocating with them. their blood and shit pollutes the water when it rains. i drink their corpses. it is their blood in my viens. when i cry, the acidity of 10,000 species' turmoil carves canyons into my cheekbones. but all i can do is cry.

Labels: By Ana