bones (20170126)

Posted on January 26, 2017 by crow

there is artifice in these bones
look, how when disrobed
of flesh and fat and given a proper
bath, look how they gleam whitely
such purity, such strength

there are tooth marks
on many a tibia, on many an ulna
and ancient boys slew their brothers
with their fathers’ femurs

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16 thoughts on “bones (20170126)”

thesarahdoughty January 26, 20178:24 pm

Oh wow.
1. crow January 26, 20179:07 pm
  
  😉
Dead Donovan January 27, 20171:29 am

I love how my bone gleams. Alas! Mine have no bite marks 😦
1. crow January 27, 201710:47 am
  
  You must really wax your bone to get it so shiny.
  1. Dead Donovan January 28, 201712:14 am
    
    Ha! Wax and buff, baby.
    
    ~PR
Poet Rummager January 27, 20171:39 am

Beautiful and dark. Do the bite marks on the bones refer to cannibalism?
1. crow January 27, 201710:48 am
  
  That’s what I was thinking. I’ve always had a weird obsession with cannibalism. Obsession, not participation, mind you.
  1. Poet Rummager January 27, 20174:15 pm
    
    Hmm. I wonder…
  2. crow January 27, 20174:46 pm
    
    Hmm. I wonder what you wonder…
  3. Poet Rummager January 27, 20176:59 pm
    
    😁
  4. crow January 27, 20178:07 pm
    
    😬🍖💀 👻
Jane Dougherty January 27, 20173:33 am

I love bones, and these are beauties 🙂 You were cut adrift, but I have reeled you back in again.
1. crow January 27, 201710:51 am
  
  And all I had to do was bait the hook with some flesh and blood.
  1. Jane Dougherty January 27, 201712:08 pm
    
    You bring out the morbid in me.
skat January 27, 20172:04 pm

That’s a mind-blower–especially that last line.
1. crow January 27, 20174:45 pm
  
  Thanks. Hope it wasn’t too disturbing.