Asperities
Mitchell Dawson
If you should come into my caveBringing molded beads of sunlightFor offering—I would trample your beadsAnd crush youWith that great bone of darknessWhich I have gnawed for yearsAnd which has left meMeagre as a gnarled root.
If you should come into my caveBringing molded beads of sunlightFor offering—I would trample your beadsAnd crush youWith that great bone of darknessWhich I have gnawed for yearsAnd which has left meMeagre as a gnarled root.
If you should come into my caveBringing molded beads of sunlightFor offering—I would trample your beadsAnd crush youWith that great bone of darknessWhich I have gnawed for yearsAnd which has left meMeagre as a gnarled root.
If you should come into my cave
Bringing molded beads of sunlight
For offering—
I would trample your beads
And crush you
With that great bone of darkness
Which I have gnawed for years
And which has left me
Meagre as a gnarled root.
One moment—Your friendHas squeezed great drops from youUpon his palette;With your color he has wrought—Masterpieces, you say?But the empty tubeGrown flat in his hand,Will he hold it or pick up another,Your friend—
One moment—Your friendHas squeezed great drops from youUpon his palette;With your color he has wrought—Masterpieces, you say?But the empty tubeGrown flat in his hand,Will he hold it or pick up another,Your friend—
One moment—Your friendHas squeezed great drops from youUpon his palette;With your color he has wrought—Masterpieces, you say?But the empty tubeGrown flat in his hand,Will he hold it or pick up another,Your friend—
One moment—
Your friend
Has squeezed great drops from you
Upon his palette;
With your color he has wrought—
Masterpieces, you say?
But the empty tube
Grown flat in his hand,
Will he hold it or pick up another,
Your friend—
Do you remember Antonino—Swift-winged, green in the sun?Into the snap-dragon throat of desireFlew Antonino.Snap!...The skeleton of Antonino has madeA good husband, a good provider.
Do you remember Antonino—Swift-winged, green in the sun?Into the snap-dragon throat of desireFlew Antonino.Snap!...The skeleton of Antonino has madeA good husband, a good provider.
Do you remember Antonino—Swift-winged, green in the sun?Into the snap-dragon throat of desireFlew Antonino.Snap!...The skeleton of Antonino has madeA good husband, a good provider.
Do you remember Antonino—
Swift-winged, green in the sun?
Into the snap-dragon throat of desire
Flew Antonino.
Snap!...
The skeleton of Antonino has made
A good husband, a good provider.