SANKTAARK


Plucked from the annals of another time, Sanktaark means to rediscover and partake in a lost zoology, or cryptozoology respectively. Drawing from the biblical story of Noah and the ark, it is a boundless family of animals existing beyond modern notions that relegate a numeric fate condoned to absolute definition - a creationism without explanation. These were animals put upon a holy ark that journeyed to the other side of the ocean, aided by a different compass. They hide amongst us today as our squirming invisible mirrors, emitting unknown fears and warmth, scurrying along as disowned pets in the labrinythe of history, maybe wishing to catch a quick glance, or maybe subdued reconcilliation.


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Bestomomentos II

but I then I finally found my refuge in this cave, where my hallowed noises could wimper. They became miracoulsy  flooded and defeated by the deafening of an unexpected cue, a maliased hum rendered in shadows, enveloping me - I became its subaltern. I relinquished my own pining self-propriety, breathless, as I let it birth me, breed me, I was its toy creature. I could fold this skin, layer upon layer, into a crinklely sponge to hover and destroy, thaw, unwelcome silence par my moisture. I lunged long bony legs, letting them extended into contract to create the most fantastic angles. My arms could sag and endure as  I maneuvered between the rocks, determined to fill any uncomfortable void. My beak was crooked, my tail stiff and sharp. I honed, curdled and then sliced any unwanted interjections, through a peculiar slit-orfice. I often wished it could speak, but that slobbering opening on at the midsection of my third and last leg never said a word. It would rather collect and  process ill-thought words,  sending them back through my crumpled intestines, which could aptly expand like ballons to accomdate any bulking terror. I would wiggle often, believing a discomfort in your own skin builds character. But I would fight day and night, to heave-ho and catch up with him, the knight of the forest, my creator. Even as I splattered, coo-ed, flew, shed, pawed, shivered, wept, it seemed that   everyday my existence became better forgotten. I was confined to that moment, an animal without the luxury of any ingrained migration habit. Footprints would do me no good. Between who I’d birthed and who’d birthed me, these animals and I were strangers.