Exhuming Dalí by Eric Machan Howd

skulls and blood
umbilical cords dangling off an old organ in an abandoned sanctuary
cold blues moaning on a tessellated floor
virgin whites collapsing on a starving landscape
a ruler horizon as straight as the leash on an anteater
a banshee at the bedroom window keeping you up at night
practicing lucid dreaming in the gears of a melting clock
a rhinoceros horn’s perfect curve
a rhinoceros’ perfect curve of horn
a stiff moustache tangled in marionette strings
a coffin buried erect in a forgotten moonlit desert
Lorca’s missing remains
all insecurities

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