Thursday, March 20, 2025

The sacrifice__for Neeli Cherkovski By Merritt Waldon


Crashing mind 

Descends from lofty

Climb


Wildly landing against loam

The crackling bone 

Dreaming wanderers 

The howling blue dog star

Of yore

As we begin the adventure

Of lore


See the dancers 

Mute sirens hypnotizing

These eyes with careless

Passionate gyrations 

Pirouettes 


Leaps spins 

bows


Offering the joyful 

Sacrifice of bodies 

To an eternal


Idea






Merritt Waldon is Southern Indiana poet who has been published in Road Dawgz, Sun Poetic Times,

The Brooklyn Rail, Be About It Zine, River Dog #1, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Americans & others anthology fourth edition, Crisis Chronicles, Cajun Mutt Press, Thye Rye Whiskey Review, and Fearless!.

At midnight Christmas night 2020, cajun mutt press released Oracles from a Strange Fire by Ron Whitehead & Merritt. He lives in Austin, Indiana.

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