Impassive remainder

My roaming eye consuming all it descries

Forming Roman times from desk debris

Paper piles become temple sides

High steps swept with birdblood in turbulent, ergot-coloured times.

The neck-wrangling crook of my involuntary sigh

Wrenches me from astral visions of a returning triumph

Parading lowered chiefs and treasure piles

The sheafs of the chief’s fasces inspire lasting lealty in heathen tribes.

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