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Edited May 23, 2008, 22:51
The Great Leader
Apr 16, 2008, 22:19
With thanks to Littlestone for the prompt and Persephone for the scissors:

The Great Leader (A Passage Tomb at Duntryleague, County Limerick)

An eye on the hilltop, bristling with trees,
whose dark lashes blink in the shuddering breeze -
a lingering witness of a day long past,
when that petrified carcass first rose from the grass.
It waited for legends to grow in the tomb
and pulse through this salmon-flesh quartz-speckled room
where I sit dreaming of spines of stones,
of flakes of life once picked from their bones.

Mixed with soil in a corn-coloured powder,
Olill Olum lies, the people's great leader.
"Place me on high, over the valley's soft breath,
where I can see and be seen, even in death."
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