Memorial Anomie

      Silks involved in balms of Time
      Where even fictive if expires
      Vaunt not the coiled, the native cloud
      Combed in your mirror's lens.
5     Patriotic ranks of stagnant flags
      Exalt above the vacant street;
      Drowned by waves of your naked mane
      I plunge to my eyes' content.
      Yet, no mouth may be sure
10    Of the savor his bite procures
      Unless, regal and rampant, he insist,
      Amidst your immense and copper tufts,
      On expelling a diamond sigh:
      The cry 'Glorie!' that he stifles.
15    Mallarme

 

From the collection "Nobody Poems"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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