Lacuna Balkan

Opiate globes of burning smoke loom high overhead
Dousing oaken treetops with stertorous luminescence
Milky splashes of shadow dance across narrow walkways
Swallowing essence of passersby
Remnants of skeleton villages--
Smattering of restaurant vistas--remain
Stench-filled rot
Houris harem for the slime-soaked spirit

Gaze into cesspool sockets
Walk with the weary withering
Thrust clenched fists into boiling, gaping sores
Taste searing flesh melt on lapping tongues
This sulphur stage you have set
With your tonka tanks--plastic proselyting propaganda propellant
Spitfire scorching slurs
Smacked into Sophia's sons from six