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Red Shift

January 29, 2015·the shadowshine years
first posted as “Red Shift Of Haditha: 322”

And the red sky drifts
down a winding road
as the evening shifts
in an endless snow.

Beneath fiery red
there’s a big black gate,
in a town that’s dead,
at the end of the straight.

Upon entrance here,
in the center square,
there’s a sense of fear;
there’s a well that’s bare.

And the well goes deep.
With a look below —
and its sides are steep —
there’s a faint white glow.

To the faint white glow,
for this town that’s dead,
all the pain does flow
as the well runs red.

shadowshining · poems by ethank