Words by Oliver Cocks
Art by Des Ramjee
Epiphany
Cycle, decimated
Slate,
Life, fire-baptised
Here we are
Mellowing
From seethe to
peace,
clamorous passion to
lily-tinged silence,
Sturm und Drang to
Hollywood ending
is
but
a
stone’s
throw.
Pronouncement
And so, I’ll blaze
like a flare,
like the fields of air,
cloud-stripped
until…