Tag: moth

• The Silver Line

  Follow a ghost and enter into a numbing That robs the red from the brick And the edge from the knife To stand victorious amongst crowds of the phenomenal dead- grieving nothing now but the loss of grief // By the dint of whim, mutant gene or dangerous exposure to certain quantities of gamma radiation…

  Gardener

  March 18, 2023

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  butterfly, death, die, dying, epistemology, free verse, history, inspiration, inspire, loss, lover, memory, moth, myth, nature, philosophy, poem, poet, poetry, recovery, relationship, royal, sex, silk, travel, war, worm, write, writing

• Bombyx mori

  

  I cannot rage against the dying of the light- rage against the tide the callous or the morning // Early doors, she the veiled beauty glides Black silk in ribbons over palest skin And the dimple of a hip joint. the finest fingers veritably ravel back unto the spool. // Essence, fury, love, and loss…

  Gardener

  October 15, 2022

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  death, die, dying, father, inspiration, inspire, loss, love, lover, moth, myth, nature, philosophy, poem, poetry, prompt, royal, sex, silk, weekend, worm, writing