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Mantle

Ashley Capes

God was a duel with the road
and the rail was
hungry, begging for time

gardeners
vaulted themselves in,
juggling aplomb
and despair,
practising life with
winter coats

backs, hidden
servitors
carrying pale sins
and beauty
in great, smouldering slag heaps

the North Star
lost beneath a mantle of
bitter prayer