Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Bulwark

bulwark \BUL-wurk; -wawrk\, noun, verb:
1. to defend or protect, serve as a bulwark; shelter

Bull work. Honest work. Pulling and gnawing at the earth with claws. Teeth nashing. Ribbons of strain revealed in an outstretched neck. Lips pulled back in a grimace. Showing all our teeths. Perhaps a tongue wags out, its pointed tip dotting the air...

I imagine a man gripping ropes in his fists, dragging something, a heavy load behind him, still yet beyond the horizon. I can't make out what it is. Bricks? Mortar? The man is tanned, almost to burning. His face is red, so red you can almost feel it burning. His whole body sends off waves of heat. That curvy air of expended energy surrounds him like an aura. Colorless. Impossible to grasp but still a part of the earth.

His hair is black, short and shiny. He makes me think of an imp. Perhaps he is pulling hell behind him, dragging it up from the depths. Turning the world inside out.


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