Wide and Narrow in Their Fate

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Aurora borealis touches dreams

Of men and poets as they wander through

The realm of loving, hopeful planetary streams

Of matter from the world of Venus, blue

And troubling mixed inside the cavities

Of chest and heart, as if reality

Concerns itself about depravities

That it imposes on its prey.  A scree

Of comets more romantic than some vile

Attack on victims of this sort casts spells

On cravers.  At the same time it defiles

Them, singing to them in deep’s ocean shells.

  These echo inwardly with quiet dooms

    Inside a nautilus’s prison rooms.

~ Phillip Whidden

by phillipw | Sep 24, 2023 | CH, LO, RO, UN, Uncategorized | 0 comments