<center><h1>Invaders</h1>**.
original poetry
by @d-pend
.
with art
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by [Zen-Master](https://www.deviantart.com/zen-master/gallery/)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and [mario837](https://www.deviantart.com/mario837/gallery/)**</center>
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<h2>Invaders</h2>
Tongues other than mine
that must not find their way
into the plains of our terran village:
languages of ivory and soapsuds,
wafts of rainbow words imploding,
deflating the earth like a vast balloon.

Chemical-drill English—
defender against monstrosities,
hurling serpents 
turned to crossbow bolts
turned to agonies of purple flame.

Vocalizer of chagrin,
builder of bismuth cackles,
acidification 
in a momentary cloudburst.

An eroding gamble, 
a shelter of steel,
and a mute boy, running—
split into seven doppelgängers
measured by the iris' compass
vanishing into the sacred forest
in a flash of weird angles.

Tongues other than ours:
a barrage of transparent explosives
swim from blasphemous sectors of space,
trickling diaphanous fins,
gemmed hieroglyphics
borne by starred appendages
in gestures of sublimated carbon.
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![space_burning_ship_i_by_mario837-d7wc0ba.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmY2CBym8ansvKXTLj23hA7EYdJ9w7BvwgSZkAYPSLbk6v/space_burning_ship_i_by_mario837-d7wc0ba.jpg)
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<center><h3>Written by 
@d-pend
10/8/18
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Art by</h3>**.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;["Space Hulk" by Zen-Master](https://www.deviantart.com/zen-master/art/Space-Hulk-163631830)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;["Space Burning Ship I by mario837](https://www.deviantart.com/mario837/art/Space-Burning-Ship-I-477571222)
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;["Meridian" by Zen-Master](https://www.deviantart.com/zen-master/art/Meridian-107228919)**</center>
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