Butterflies' liveries
are scarlet and black.
They drive chariots in air.
People in the chariots
are pale as dew--
you can see right through them--
but the chariots
are made of gold of the sun.
They go up to heaven
and never catch fire.
There are green centipedes
and brown centipedes
and black centipedes,
because green and brown and black
are the colors in hell's flag.
Centipedes
have hundreds of feet
because it is so far from hell
to come up for air.
Centipedes
do not hurry.
They are waiting for the last day
when they will creep over the false prophets
who will have their hands tied.

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Night calls to the sandhills
and gathers them under her.
she pushes away cities