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“Greta's cedar hope chest
Is full of pamphlets
Glass shelves of romantic vignettes
A journal laced with sedimentary prose
Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays
Hair combs valentines
Lillian allows the animals to scratch
And the leather crack
And the mail collect in the box as coatings peel
Agnes veiled cathedral dweller
Smiles with benevolent pain
But it's Katrina's fair
Tuesday morning
As she with caution unlatches the flat door
She alone cascades to the basement
Careful not to spoil her
Calico printed pinafore
Composite traits and mannerists
All others dissipate
Marguerite vigilant
She dwells upon frigid casements
Sarah's thoughts in high velocity
Accusations always pierce and pass
Clara abandons her passions for distastes
A Miss Lenora P. Sinclair
Early for coffee in the pool
"I'm resituating all your words"
Capital Space Colon Paragraph
Sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled by
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
Genus
Species
But it's Katrina's fair
Tuesday morning
As she with caution unlatches the flat door
She alone cascades to the basement
Careful not to spoil her
Calico printed pinafore
Composite traits and mannerists
All others dissipate
Down the way a silk design
This face is mine
Tis I, Katrina!
Katrina, I.”
―
Is full of pamphlets
Glass shelves of romantic vignettes
A journal laced with sedimentary prose
Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays
Hair combs valentines
Lillian allows the animals to scratch
And the leather crack
And the mail collect in the box as coatings peel
Agnes veiled cathedral dweller
Smiles with benevolent pain
But it's Katrina's fair
Tuesday morning
As she with caution unlatches the flat door
She alone cascades to the basement
Careful not to spoil her
Calico printed pinafore
Composite traits and mannerists
All others dissipate
Marguerite vigilant
She dwells upon frigid casements
Sarah's thoughts in high velocity
Accusations always pierce and pass
Clara abandons her passions for distastes
A Miss Lenora P. Sinclair
Early for coffee in the pool
"I'm resituating all your words"
Capital Space Colon Paragraph
Sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled by
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
Genus
Species
But it's Katrina's fair
Tuesday morning
As she with caution unlatches the flat door
She alone cascades to the basement
Careful not to spoil her
Calico printed pinafore
Composite traits and mannerists
All others dissipate
Down the way a silk design
This face is mine
Tis I, Katrina!
Katrina, I.”
―
“And in the stockyard, beasts did climb their barriers.”
―
―
“wide open falsehood
the clandestine truths
rival till the end
in a series of duels
pardon the drapery language I choose
Waltz in Vienna has taught me to use
every tall room a fiction
leatherbound treasure books
up to the ceiling
gold spine upon spine
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
wide open falsehood
the clandestine truths
rival till the end
in a series of duels
pardon the drapery language I choose
the author grew fat to imagine
his lead pen careening
gave voice to the scheming
an Aryan cabale to dethrone
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
to the empire unknown
the baron and his mistress
dine in a fine banquet hall
as rebel insurgents
plot in the attic space crawl
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
now lie in my hand”
―
the clandestine truths
rival till the end
in a series of duels
pardon the drapery language I choose
Waltz in Vienna has taught me to use
every tall room a fiction
leatherbound treasure books
up to the ceiling
gold spine upon spine
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
wide open falsehood
the clandestine truths
rival till the end
in a series of duels
pardon the drapery language I choose
the author grew fat to imagine
his lead pen careening
gave voice to the scheming
an Aryan cabale to dethrone
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
to the empire unknown
the baron and his mistress
dine in a fine banquet hall
as rebel insurgents
plot in the attic space crawl
the guile and the treason
the faith and allegiance
now lie in my hand”
―
“Bred for one purpose only, to die in man's sport.”
―
―
“Sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled by
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
Genus
Species”
―
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
Genus
Species”
―
“She borders the pavement
Flanks avenues
The parades pass
White glove attended by
My mother the war
She'll raise a shaft
Lift a banner
Toss a rose
My mother the war
Mother the war
Mother the war
She knows every neighbor
Chats at their doors
Compare
Econosize electric appliances
My mother the war
Come share tea
And a seat by
My cradle with
My mother the war
Mother the war
Mother the war
Forsaken vigil
Three years each tour
Hands of God enfold him
Prayed
Mother the war
Haunt a doorway
Beg a postman
Is there word for
Mother the war
My mother the war
Mother
5 black stars!
In bitter defiance
She's spiting the corps
Wet a brood
Short league for combat
Mother the war
Well acquainted
With sorrow
With grief
My mother the war
Mother the war!
Folded lace
Carrion and
Blood soaked robes
Folded lace
Carrion
Blood soaked shroud!”
―
Flanks avenues
The parades pass
White glove attended by
My mother the war
She'll raise a shaft
Lift a banner
Toss a rose
My mother the war
Mother the war
Mother the war
She knows every neighbor
Chats at their doors
Compare
Econosize electric appliances
My mother the war
Come share tea
And a seat by
My cradle with
My mother the war
Mother the war
Mother the war
Forsaken vigil
Three years each tour
Hands of God enfold him
Prayed
Mother the war
Haunt a doorway
Beg a postman
Is there word for
Mother the war
My mother the war
Mother
5 black stars!
In bitter defiance
She's spiting the corps
Wet a brood
Short league for combat
Mother the war
Well acquainted
With sorrow
With grief
My mother the war
Mother the war!
Folded lace
Carrion and
Blood soaked robes
Folded lace
Carrion
Blood soaked shroud!”
―
“There were women holding rosaries
On the day Manolete died
Teenage girls in soft white dresses
Standing silent peace respecting
Groups of boys held in their hands
The fragments of a shattered idol
The old men with their traditions challenged
Refrained from tears
Neck neck hook
Poles of wood
The Picadors stood eyes ablaze
To view the brutal contest
In the vale of years
Courage unfailing
Agility exhausted
Youth entered challenge
Reached for title shelved
The patrons in attendance
To disarm a common myth
Homage played to the victor of immortality
Cloaked in bold tones
And in the stockyard
Beasts did climb their barriers
Bid by a frenzied ring
Bred for one purpose only
To die in man's sport
Dash against the spindle
On the day Manolete died
On the day
An instant fell to wounding
On the day
Swords penetrating
On the day
Torches igniting
On the day
Flower wreaths encircling
The day
On the day”
―
On the day Manolete died
Teenage girls in soft white dresses
Standing silent peace respecting
Groups of boys held in their hands
The fragments of a shattered idol
The old men with their traditions challenged
Refrained from tears
Neck neck hook
Poles of wood
The Picadors stood eyes ablaze
To view the brutal contest
In the vale of years
Courage unfailing
Agility exhausted
Youth entered challenge
Reached for title shelved
The patrons in attendance
To disarm a common myth
Homage played to the victor of immortality
Cloaked in bold tones
And in the stockyard
Beasts did climb their barriers
Bid by a frenzied ring
Bred for one purpose only
To die in man's sport
Dash against the spindle
On the day Manolete died
On the day
An instant fell to wounding
On the day
Swords penetrating
On the day
Torches igniting
On the day
Flower wreaths encircling
The day
On the day”
―
“At Maddox Table a yoke was carved for my neck,
was tailor made.”
―
was tailor made.”
―
“Down the way a silk design
This face is mine
Tis I, Katrina!
Katrina, I.”
―
This face is mine
Tis I, Katrina!
Katrina, I.”
―
“The old men with their traditions challenged
Refrained from tears.”
―
Refrained from tears.”
―
