pour asperity

2008-11-18 | 9:02 p.m.

empyrean cosmia
what have you been?
was it oft kind
or all salt and brine

come now! you shuddering breath
cede us with bread
and jilted dance
long eyes all askance.

so mine forty arms and legs
with hooks and claws
could not divide
and thus feign to try.