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Red Planet

By Richard Mather



red is the colour

of the bone snapped back


red is the colour

of a land under bombs



the root of the brain

with its insides thrombosed


of the fog that descends

on the dread multitude




the colour of the eye

as it sinks its last tear


of the flag that adorns

the bone-stinking tombs


of the skin folded under

and the nerve-wire exposed


the colour of grief

and the colour of feud



the colour of a mind

as the light changes mood


blood is the colour

of primordial mud



of the devilish worm

that swims in our blood


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