Tag: Sampson Burns

Two ruined bodies, galena-black, tar-black, charred flakes of cloth, countenances gone. No ears, or eyes, or lips. Father, sister, offered to a god, fat and gorged, that I deplore; hands folded at the breastbone, as if fire was a balm that soothed, gave them repose; no hair to dress, no skin to wash and stroke.