Written in 2006 to an indeterminate inspiration, the title and imagery inspired by Acts 26:14 (KJV) in which the phrase "kick against the pricks" concerned futile and self-damaging aggression against a prick or "goad", a sharpened stick used to prod oxen.
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all things red are edible.
all things green, obscene,
judgments made
by colours, fade,
and we are left between.
the skin, it pales
and peels away,
and what is real remains,
the heart and bone of actions shown
as intent of our grains.
that stain with age
to mark couer rage,
transcendent to the mask,
of decades ended all too soon,
we drink the Hemlock flask.
words transcend
the transient end
and leave our purpose, clear,
as angels hark our watermark
in kiss and sweat and tear.
William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.