That summer, the jackal gods
guarded the underground
black-desert kingdom,
secrets kept locked
to their wells-
grave wax, sheepskin,
hennaed nails
the color of rust
on fossilized shale.
His name, not a name
but a reason to rest
whose heart fixed
to chamber, an egg
softly slipped in its shell,
a terrible, motionless season.
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