Eleanor
from Days of Mercury
A vanishing
cobalt mist
cascade
shielding
lilac & fauna
Glove
stiletto
not a word
but silent arias
just out of reach
thunderous hearts
Quieted river
torrid branch
drowning petal
jaundiced
fog
shrouded
communique in
flight
a greytail hawk
circling the estuary
scouting vaulted
battlefield of the dispossessed
here we are
finally cowards
beyond putrefaction
red lesions
over our eyes
Banished without
grief
over creeping vision
under the
hull of
all the lost voyages
relived
in the
these burned
vanishings
At azimuth
as these vapid gods
do nothing but betray the queen
turn away as her eyes
ignite
radiant waves
lost to all
the creatures
escaped to Aquitaine
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