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tarnished dreaming (mindful, memorable freeform workshop)
bright red mortality
spews onto old-ochre dirt
as guilelessness pools
into the dreamtime drawing
black skin sweats tears
in the shade-less midday sun
while lean dusty limbs
are chiselled into the foetal position
in a paroxysm of agony and fear
the sugar sack lies open
its contents
innocuously white
mixing to a gentle pink
with the spreading tide
of crimson death
a station-owner’s gift
to the colours of the dreaming
arsenic’s metal-grey
effects its cause
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