July 21, 2024
Excerpt from "Lances for the King," taken from Digressions in Poetry and Prose
For the last time
two forms that moved together in the night, receiving
as onto a flat blacker starlit plane
both as incorrigible, glowered
A presence prepared vaguely a soft light
It was a very good night
and in a millennium of several thousand years to the day
when water fell not only from the sky
from the rocks
and from the trees
it fell from the unseen plans
it deflowered hair's ends
and it fought memories
and it injured the truth
and as it appeared in the foreground of a color facade
it was like liquid voussoir