Start Running

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Harboring an acute sense of the damage radiating from our bones.
It’s just a scratch they’ve miracled away, the festering stench beneath the skin.
But you can feel the heat that never turns into an itch.
You can feel the disintegrating core — the hardness never comes.
It only ripens, softens, rots, then implodes.

The fear they’ve given to you like it’s a gift —
Attempts to contain end in the charred remnants of a box that never could hold something so powerful
It crawls and cocoons you, then extends into everywhere.
Consuming, angering, grieving.

This beautiful cloak of gray nonexistence swaddles those who never needed swaddling.
So you can lay them where they belong, close their eyes in the darkest corner of another world.
Let it steer you with your invisible majestic antlers pointed at your prey.
Pathetic and needy, let it pulse through your veins!
I will eat it! I will suckle it from your arteries! Until it builds and hardens, sealing the exit!
This can only end in consumption, anger, and grief. You will be the destruction of birth.

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from Silver Godling, released April 30, 2019

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Silver Godling New Orleans, Louisiana

Silver Godling is the project of Emily McWilliams. All photos on this page by Teddie Taylor - teddietaylor.com - and Craig Mulcahy - craigmulcahy.net.

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