Zachariah Rush - Sunbathers

See the poor, the old, and the young
spread out along the sands
like racks of lamb

with sun-soaked flesh.
Minions of Phoebus; votaries
in the cult of heliolatry

desiccating voluntarily – tanning in
cancerating sun-gleams,
lobstered by light.

Zachariah Rush

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