
all the while we’re here,
knowing this loss phrases some god’s gain or damn,
that obsidian wasn’t merely volcanic glass
but the last jewel set deep in your brain?
— Elena Karina Byrne from poem Karma

all the while we’re here,
knowing this loss phrases some god’s gain or damn,
that obsidian wasn’t merely volcanic glass
but the last jewel set deep in your brain?
— Elena Karina Byrne from poem Karma