atla poetry
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daughter of duty, sing on.
you carry the weight of your people without question,
without care for your own good.
you kneel before the moon and pray for prosperity,
strength, security. no thought for your own worries
that you hide under wine purple gowns,
trimmed with soft white fur and smooth stone beads.
you sing over the screams in your head.Series
- Part 1 of atla poetry
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empty rattling and leering grins are all the boy has left.
no more does laughter ring through echoing halls,
but howling wind instead.
he wishes it were not so—
that all the dead would dance again,
and he would not be alone.Series
- Part 2 of atla poetry
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once there was a boy who swallowed the sun.
he burned and burned and burned
in and out
breath blazing.
coal-black char crunching over pink skin,
topaz yellow bubbles oozing with pus,
pomegranate red skin swallowing his face.Series
- Part 3 of atla poetry