New Rites from The Healer by SUMAC

Grey plains crossed
Dry and cracked
Neck craned
Leading to springs
infinite
Seen from chasms
shade

Lead press of
the keeper’s weight
Breath drawn short
lungs briar pricked
Over ground
steps weave and recede

Under boughs
of the pine
Our hearts undone

New rites
from ancient blades
To dispel
the curdled blood
Laid across the place
by waters ringed

Under boughs
of the pine
Our hearts conjoined

No sorrow
Only strength

Through space
In tumult
mind carried
Thought obscured
Inlets to flowering expanse
Colors shift
into forms unknown
Perfumed confusion
stuttered sound
Heaving fields
Honeyed sores

From flesh and fallow limbs
Petals open

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