Digging

World a stage, fool fool fury hurry

Already harpies alight your pomes

Setting alight poems too many secrets holding

Digging a grave to hold thee

Who heard me o’erfreely speaking today

As a pulpitted deacon pulverising pagan Egypt with plagues of a Sunday

Mysteries many yet to solve but this one I sever, resolving by blade

Severe, smearing upon innocent doublet blood of one innocent doubly

Dead, for but a ducat.


I came to places unpaved

Wild shuck-haunted ways mazelike

Where stuck men walk days, befuddled by fairy strey

Terra firma sustain you not, for glaive’d have I gordian knot

Which stayed braying sage minds a hundred ages

Vile earth in paces measured

Encased my brethren, unbreathed

Full five fathom father, lie.


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