molto vivace - The Black Dwarf

The splash of colour explodes into emptiness

As reapers capture minuscule stars at midnight

Their mouths swallow the moon

Eating her alive

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The strangers erase

His dirty tenderness

Bleach out colours

In the blood that flows in his veins

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He chants through numb lips

It seeps through windows to the trail of stars

They chant

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That night

His dead body rusts

on the low-brow ice

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Here lies the horse that couldn’t run

Here lies the stiffened heart that doesn’t beat

Here lies the rock

too smooth to kill

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Mutilated

Ice put into fire

Fire and water

Dissipated

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Background:

Upon the passing of Indian Act in 1876, the Indian residential school system in Canada was created to isolate Indigenous children from their own culture and religion to assimilate them. The number of deaths at these schools still remains unknown to this day.

Get to know more:

Indian Horse (2012), novel

Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo, CBC true crime podcast

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