Happy Autumn! Only one contributor this month but hey, it happens!

This month’s prompt is:

“the sacrificial altar”

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Bear (Host of With Strange Aeons and Whatever With Jason Soto):

This Secespita Cuts Oracles

Prayers come half-answered and I’m left wanting
to fall against someone, have all

below me razed.
Muse unto yourself; I am picking at

Lavender-soaked love
is:

Heavy silk and ocean foam, or
a sense of absence,

call of larksong.
An electric field,

a heaven
with eyes.

When I wake up
halfway between meat and libation

the brain does not know
where the lungs are

so I lay out the seventy bones of my hands and wrists.
The sacrificial altar holds its breath.

I am a willing participant.