SAINTLYLIMB
by Jun-long Lee
I
I look at the sinless. Archive requests reflection; pull a tome by
lingering; creases in clothing are bridges to immolation. A stillness
that harvests bushels of burning near objects that they might
transform: stalagmite into saint, surface into symbol; changes
camouflaged by the diseased appearance of the skin. Eye contact
lends the moment purity: pure watching makes the hands clear (the
hands fat with light).
II
To inspect promotes the passing of infection, a method of passing
time when observed. What seemed like incendiary lepers reveal in
their cinders an erosion brought on by sprinting towards the end.
Leapers from the present through wormholes on the surface of
expressions caught in hallucination.
III
An entity absolves by preparing the exterior for the moon of god.
This cleansing proceeds with the constant premonition of a gentle
squeeze of the thigh, a proposition in a different language.
Shimmering in its outline: opal, semen; onyx, sincerity.
IV
Hampering variations mature into a perfume that escapes towards
the ceiling, taking the feared and desired with it. What remains is a
relic – a vessel tasked with emission. To be used when you raze the
landscape or raise it.
Handsome, everlasting, brightface: saintlylimb.
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Featured by The Blasted Tree: February 9, 2021
Jun-long lee
Contributing Author
SAINTLYLIMB by Jun-long Lee is a Blasted Tree original poem
Edition of 60 longsheets published in Canada