Pendants (by Salome Stone)

1.

lookatme

(asif)……………………………………

something Sinister lurking…………

under culture

sex or death

manipulation…………

power, greed…………

(asif) i hold inside………

some kind of chart…

that points to all of this……

the lines crossing back and forth…………

a thing to scratch…………

at while your own

cells shed…

and layer on your

windowsill

2.

dive down through the skin

of our present which

is just starting to

reek from exploration

and dirty hands

or aromatic, through the

thickness and crusted

over parts of anyone but us

the core is there… somewhere

surrounded by mold and

suppositions - now

dried and cracked

probing through all that remains of

the truth is the

formations of what took over

AND sucked out

the moisture

let the life

evaporate