The Devil’s Daughters

Five moons, unwept in light and shadow, five
      Suns, five daughters marked the drowning.
An insatiable chasm that gorged on flaxen ground,
      Five dreams unmourned upon the gloaming.

There was the anti-white jihadi, riding backwards on
      An ancient nag: in one hand he held a flask with
The ashes of Milton, and with the other a burning Iliad.
      There was the Azovite, descending on a pterodactyl,

His shirtless body revealing a hideous Wolfsangel
      Flanked by a Celtic Cross and SS Bolts: with one
Hand he held the head of a Donbass girl and with
      The other a portrait of Bandera. Next came the

Takfiri, arriving on the back of a pickup truck, over
      One shoulder he hauled a bag with the hands of
Alawites; and from the other, the feet of Druze. Feminisis
      Followed, furiously riding a chariot pulled by men

Broken and battered, ceaselessly whipped they raced
      Over all the earth, howling beyond the rains were
The phantoms of the unborn. At last came the Zionist,
      Sitting atop a bloodstained hippopotamus whilst

Wearing an ADL shirt and using a joystick to slaughter
      Gazans, the droning of the Cyclopes striking terror
In every babe – their illimitable bloodlust hounding the
      Pious and the callow. And these five heathens imploded

On the main, and from black doom flowed shadows,
      And from shadows birthed black flowers nigh; raging
Were the hellhounds that heaved crimson waters – drooling
      In dauntless pride were these wolves of a new dominion

David Penner’s articles on politics and health care have appeared in Dissident Voice, CounterPunch, Global Research, The Saker blog, OffGuardian and KevinMD; while his poetry can be found at Dissident Voice, Mad in America, and redtailedhawk.substack.com. Also a photographer, he is the author of three books of portraiture: Faces of The New Economy, Faces of Manhattan Island, and Manhattan Pairs. He can be reached at 321davidadam@gmail.com. Read other articles by David.