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We returned at dusk to the green walls,

the spacious cold echoing luridly

between the growths that sat and yawned

alongside the river's rim.

Each turn pressed us further into its depths

If we shut our eyes,

we saw their faces

submerged in the darkness

hypnotic and frigid,

lips parted,

plodding in the mud.

Their brains deranged by the moon



At dawn we embarked upon the soil.

We stood insensate, in awe,

of the unlit pit of the earth

We found them all dead:

ubiquitous, nameless, naked in the dirt