AP 4

The Mark of the Cyclops


This is the picture that bears his mark
the non human face
lodged in the center of its body

like a monster
from a fever ridden dream
it pulses behind the bloodied surface

caged in the dark
you can’t see its one eye
or as it eats its child

Redon knew of the creature
let it roam among the hills
above the sleeping beauty

but here it’s caught
within the mask of life
painted into the netherworld.

- after the above by Anna Pimakhova

Robert Kennedy