Periphery Blue

Border blue

Quiet surface I peer right through

Fathoms deep, fathomless depths 

Bathing weights for sounding

What you feel you swaddle like a foundling

What I feel you smother like a changeling

The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak.

I see storms in you, shooing away storks.


I see forms in you with my face on them, men with bird bodies Thoth’s inverse progeny

Sure as Marsham has a bouncy bush we launched ourselves into as boys

What others mistake for taciturnity, saturnian influence, I evince as coy

You deploy yourself tactically, dramatic and different, watched like an active factory

You thrive on ecstasy, next to me you can magnetically connect and make success of

You’re obsessed with me

Obsequious in extremis both, venus in virgo furtive as a turncoat in company

I have planted seeds yet you thresh my fields and potential yields with greek fire

Lurid and fluid the fire of that secret chemistry, burning forever like the medium rare soul of Syracusian Agothocles lured to sleep by plucked lyres

Mary maternity’s ward, her firstborn Son eternity’s sword.

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