[cattle Bars Hold Crystal Intact] Poem by Aaron Eliad

Cattle bars hold crystal intact
from the previous curfew tape
removed in light of your single tempered
torch song.
Like a moment, frozen forever there.

your sister and mother and various families
phase iodine eyes through a rotgut room
encounter. only smaller with a forced submission
of five hundred million others.

Unfinished forever. burnt streets in winter against
ivory, the color of paradise.

inspiring existence definition
actions to betray instincts in our race
of the angel marking creation
and your promise of heaven.