Mark of the Beast — a poem by Pikthall

Mark of the Beast

An asymmetry
Unveiled for censure alone
Thrown, twinned and twisted
Ensnared by the white-mosquito
Or mile marker 11-44
Premonitions of tragedy
Everything
An act of
Willpower

_
Pikthall is a writer and the Editor of Imperative Papers. 

_
Ashley Montagu was a prolific British-American anthropologist.