Literary Orphans

Returnees by Brandon Marlon

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Mournful sounds thrum

over the parched boneyard,

claustral and forsaken;

unseasonable winds swerve and bluster

amid its doleful marrow salting the earth.

 

Once the sunlet plunges

under brittle, ecru soil,

sullied ossatures abruptly rattle,

gasping pure breath,

vying for lifeblood, jostling for sinews,

whirling to discard the claggy grime

of barren ages rooted in wilderness.

 

Dawn greets the straying host

lost and bewildered in gratitude’s rapture,

squinting in the light,

admiring the vista dotted with townlets

as a spate of praise spumes from their maws.

 

Some revenants emerge and roam unsmeared;

others limp from the clay of estranging strata.

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Brandon Marlon is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.A. (Hon.) in Drama and English from the University of Toronto and his M.A. in English from the University of Victoria. His poetry has been published variously in Canada, the U.S., England, Greece, Romania, Israel, India, and Singapore. www.brandonmarlon.com

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