From: Scar-eye@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: As I threatened...
Date: Tue Jul 19 09:37:21 1994
As I threatened yesterday...My Norse Myth inspired Poem, YGGDRASIL.

YGGDRASIL (Written 9/29/92---And YES, I know it sucks)

In my hands
Dull spikes glintpierced
August clouds before rain fall
My flesholds on and screams
holding me
on the tree

My facecradle open
Bloodpus yelloweblack hole
Blackened with white that shows
Hanging on
Nine days

Ribshattered aside
Gungir slid between the slats
Witheringrip ashhaft 
Inchscribed stained runesigils
my bloodlove worn deep in wood
by my hands

Wind roars in my caveskull sandy pounding waves
lungs strain to rend brittlebreastbone
mottlepatchy brownmange dogs leap cavortsnap at my heels
head heavy pullsnaps twigneck still against shoulder

around my parchmentthin skin
frayrotting hemp hangman's knot
beggar's hemp stitched with rottenskin
Whitepale sun ripping skin away as I hang
no water for me
here hang on the tree

Hugin freke gere shriek for me
circleing head scream while I can't
beaks stickybrown gnawing at my seared saggings
blueblack birdling tear at the air with dead wings
cut and cutting
through my prayers

My chest expandss expands pounds
drumhead heart tight and past the limit of flesh
red musclemass pushed runny 
breath a hiss harsh dry up here
Wait for the answer
dying for me


As I said yesterday...Not my best work.

Scar-eye Rossi (Funny how life imitates art)