idioma profana

naked but for their savagery
crushed and subdued
the antipodeans
cast a circular shadow in all directions
with hollows to wallow in
and horizons that dip into appraisal

these natives marched west from the crescent
blessed and blasted from despair's grasp
breathing and lungeful with eminent desire
their power of choice but a whisper
that insinuates deep within the non-seeing fossa
there to burr and scratch out a niche
whether welcome or not

this teasel, this seed with teeth and fur
it leaves all occupants shrouded and skived
abandoned, vacant, aloof and sole
the wane of elan routine and assured
the schedule settled, even the intent sealed

forcing an onliest onto a sea of cessation
awash in a progress that decays as they stood