[I suggest you read the title and then skip the bible verses and read just the sonnet below them. Then read the bible verses and re-read the poem.]
Wound
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood ~ Joel 2:31
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the
powers of the heaven shall be shaken. ~ Matthew 24:29
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the
blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. And the third angel
poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
~ Revelation 16:3-4
When hearts are punctured, what they spill is seeped
Into the soil, the sky and sea. Your chest
Is just the first of victims. It is steeped
In stains but also ribs feel the arrest
Of trauma as discoloration spreads.
The stigma leaches deep into the ground
Where hopes were meant to grow. The treads
Of ploughmen sowing salt go circling round
That earth. Heart farms become the Carthage of
The Romans. Crystallized sterility
Begins to form in blotches high above
The waves. Death takes on visibility.
..Inside that cosmos living in your head
….The oceans, coasts and stars collapse to red.