Old ceremony

Heightened occasions require ceremony and lightning, firelighting

In ‘pard flannel and lucre gathered from beaches along the channel

The King happy-dull jumps the belled bulls

Action expels the tug of his charismatic woes

Bare-breasted, void-nested, her parlour a nest of poisons and shells

Little yet of self

Her trestle table carved with Nestor’s face, instruments new metals

Inscribed wards for fending off any devils which deign towards

Lovestained floors. A sky the pie of old abortion this morning.

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