The Keeper
If
not maiden intended,
maiden
in waiting.
Word
to the Matriarch,
my
return at dark.
I send my man for her things.
The
disjointed spite the Bedlamite.
I covet the cover of clouds.
Talk of mad seasons,
the
ides of which to fear.
As
to my letters,
commonality
in my ken.
Her
words do what they should.
I
suicide..
Morphine
dreams little women.
There is wine and dress
cast about as light material.
Cards and dice until
the adrenaline dies down.
What
cleave to us fall down.
Her exhalation
sanguine.
Wind
filter cool to the skin.
A
beast reverence and disgust.
It
is a scene, apt pupil.
Come
from it benign until it don’t.
The cuckold give her direction.
The stink of ambition
the sculpted.
The narrows for the
damnable consumption. GL ©