The Marsh Below the Mountain

Coughing, spewing, gargling, choking

Squelching, squirming, always churning

As if the mount coughed up entrails

The marsh below the mountain.

Air damp, water stank

Covered in algae, air rank

Like rotten intestines still alive

The marsh below the mountain.

A muddy dark green wasteland

A desolate place at hand

If bog and mud bore child

The marsh below the mountain.