Killing a swan

My quill’s wetted tip fritters outlandishly

Colouring the undipped panda;

The vanity of making that span’s holy blankness vanish.

Through my wreck’s rent side

A lunatic tide pours effortlessly.

She is an outsider, an fortless lier beneath skies

Her dyeing eyes’ generous donations reframe the observed

The plainest bird made worthy with burstberry fervency:

Know-you-wept reds, of especial intensity; hinting immensity

Subterrene-screaming blacks, which with a screen’s false depth

Seemed curved, and disturbed the misled.

Her difficult to surprise eyes, owl sly and red-sided

Watched my couching hand fall drowsily

Least leaf shaped, downwarded

Increased in size as it couched the sigher.

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