A Mortality Enclosed

      Desperate exigencies of sifted light
      Straight radiant depart a wilted soul
      Not wrapped by the felony touch of dust
      But uplifted in scourged golds infolding her
5     As blood scarves defend a weeping head from death.
      So much is hefted out of this sepulchral singing
      My blindfish heart rives in satiate dwells
      To swig until christened or drunk enough
      To swell my thin monody to her coral repose,
10    Flecking lucent spectrums of heaven's lacewing weeping.
      Shirred angel, unsplint this shinplaster self
      Outfaced by your blue radiant weeps, and
      Take this shunt offering that limes the raving grave!
      Charivari mourners cluster the lorn wake;
15    I melt to a shive, retouched. Too often retouched.

 

From the collection "Ghosts and Princes"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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