Bait a jab, dip
Clasp hands behind hips, lift
From Keramoti to Thassos, boxers by dayglow go to heroic groves
Clove-scented, seated on cloven stone cloven-footed one’s throne
Overgrown with old foliage, foliate head emerging
Flaxen hair a chervil mound, summoned by Amergin
He most unservile, rilled nubile verdant Dante rootcheeked Atlantean
Lord of leafed pantheon, xanthous panther daffodils
Stalking the knotted corset of his inessential circulation
Primate of rudest nation, oldest even to Boeotia of the flamethrowers
What keeps bigfish smallponded? Egyptian fleshpots prolonging bondage
Tomorrow’s gleaming glory, hard fought victory wrought in another’s gore
Seen like an undine beneath the sea, screaming for Severian
Severing himself from the grassthrone’s grip
Whereon satyrs root-‘roused tryst
With mirthless mavens on mistless May eves.
Alchemisland 
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