amphibi.us » Good http://amphibi.us Thu, 17 May 2012 00:15:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Deed http://amphibi.us/all/the-deed/ http://amphibi.us/all/the-deed/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:18:13 +0000 Shannon Peil http://amphibi.us/?p=1373 tell the tale
without the presence of darkness or light
whose shadows and intrusions
mar the color of truth
gray-brown like the indignation
of one at odds with his self

take the tattered wordsmith from the podiums of religion
and sever the wagging tongue from the exclusive sect
that the sun might set
in the valley of the demon and rise
within the crest of the angel’s wind

sing of the beige that prevails
the muddy medley of the human soul
of the inclination to speak harm
and the instinct to heal
all one, neither colorful
nor colorless

Speak that basic brown dialect of self-knowing
the generous jive of ashes doomed to dust
I am the angel, I am the demon
all good and all evil
lies in me



© Dawn A. Green, 2010
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