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Destruction of the Empire

Destruction of the Empire

Descriptive supposition landscape poem.

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Daniel Henderson
Feb 07, 2024
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Destruction by Thomas Cole (1863)
Smoke converges above the city of Rome.
Smoke that twists into twin eagles  
colliding to compete over the peons  
below them as if they were mice, 
scrambling for safety.  
The sky’s sea-glass blue 
fogged and clouded by smog
bled by the flames that devour 
marble architectures and pedestals.   
A sky of pandemonium pai…

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