The Monster On The Mountainside - By Natalia Roman

a mural cascade on the mountainside with

fury grown in the cold mottled lands

slipping under ribs of the remaining below.

light dims between the split of the town

with the blooming of indigos aligning the sky

of softening scarlet.

my mother kneels at the mountainside of the monster

paralyzed in rock and clay,

her hands stained in yellow from the mud she crawled through.

swallowing in the red and the moss,

she hears the cicadas ring her city like skulls of pearls

singing in the sweet water Montgomery air,

the wind of the fire sky blowing between her breath.

inhaling the pollution of the canyon worn city

she lingers at the corner of her mouth to taste the world

that whirl and coagulate in the sickly land.

dyed eyes brown to blue like windowpanes

swallowing peppered words as pebbles

entangling herself in the wounds torn through her warm breaking bones

as wind sails past the grasses, grazing her fingers along the greenery

breathing in the monster deepening in her city.

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Cover page by Gabriella Paulino