Onslaught

" Onslaught "

by Suzán Jiván

for Stanislaus Dubowski

An onslaught of figures
with touches of grit
beginning in forbidding grimness
followed by horrid darkness
then gloriously dawning
in the vestigal froth
of a mournful vortex
underscored by a regenerative core
of epically-stenciled small bores.