Descenders

Drink
bitter sulfur, smother bull buds
in bacterial nectar.

swallow
blue abyss
drink fallen ash above,

green
guardian charge, 
see red, snap sacrifice,

hot 
nostrils boil blackened air,
crush descending ascenders.

crystal 
towers smother 
Apollo steps.

mine
last minerals,
of a dying world. 

snap
heroic horn, 
penetrate crescent flesh.

corrode
lunar minerals
contaminate branched path.

Descenders

bring poison 
to the promised land, 
acidic soil. 

descend 
white colony,
distort land beyond repair.