Two Poems

by Samantha Lucia


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​What The Darkness Knows
(what the roots remember)

You Must Dig Deep,
little one,
         making firm your seedbed.
         Roots suffuse the
         primordial placenta,
         embracing you.

And then there was:
   --LIGHT--
     in
     all
     its
     brevity.

      They Must Dig Deep,
             beloved one,
making firm your earthen vault.
Roots ingather the
stygian veil,
enshrouding you.

And now there is:

--PEACE--


The Ledger of Silence

O Silence,

Sibylline ledger
sealed
until the balance
demands
    reckoning

Verity temblor
pages erupt
ashen rain
that burns

      and stains

Cicatrix to bear
      admonisher
         made flesh

Silence, you render deaf
a world
      crescendoed
         upon each branding
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Samantha Lucia is a queer poet and photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina.

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