Persephone Poisoned

from Choral Soliloquies (I) by Stephen Mead

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An avant-garde sort of "aria" rooted in Persephone finding a bitter strength

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Persephone Poisoned


Cold wind blows from my gaze,
My grin a coffin, the hibernate freeze
For years of six months apiece
Spent in some hell.

Sullen, implosive, do you think
I don’t know coals upon TNT
Stacked beneath this vast chilly stance?

Believe me, how I feel just what you
Can barely sense about what keeps me remote:
You calling me beautiful, you stroking
For a hand, marionette-made,
To hold, to have…

Let go. I’m a long way off from you,
You, fuming a possessive plume of pouting

Smoke
I taste the spring & am going
To warm my bones there, going to seed
Whole worlds farther off from the venom
You bit me with.

Child-snake, your fangs are only a teething
I coast from, a monarch sprung from
My tourniquet womb.

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from Choral Soliloquies (I), released May 20, 2017
from FreeSound.org, contributors I.D. from site

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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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