Even the Gods
Even the gods misuse the unfolding blue. Even the gods
misread
the windflower’s nod toward sunlight as consent to consume.
Still,
you envy the horse that draws their chariot. Bone of their
bone.
The wilting mash of air alone keeps you from scaling Olympus
with gifts of dead or dying things dangling from your mouth
—
your breath, like the sea, inching away. It is rumored gods
grow
where the blood of a hanged man drips. You insist on being
this
man. The gods abuse your grace. Still, you’d rather live
among
the clear, cloudless white, enjoying what is left of their
ambrosia.
Who should be happy this time? Who brings cake to whom?
Pray the gods do not misquote your covetous pulse for chaos,
the black from which they were conceived. Even the eyes of
gods
must adjust to light. Even gods have gods.
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