09-27-2014, 09:10 AM
A specter summoned from a page
has named his pallid cell a leaf.
Another corpse they call a ghost
Described the notion known as “leaf”
as many leaves contained in one.
Beside the road are tufts of grass
as blades I’ve lumped inside a form.
But now I will create a thing
that never lived, so stammer now,
briefly, in this sibilance,
and let me summon up another specter.
A Mesmer’s gaze that’s void of life,
Abstract, and drinking blood.
Whose flesh that never touched a knife,
Will summon up a flood.
The fiend will quench the parched and mute
And turn their tears to seas.
They’ll rise like vapor from its flute,
But in their form they’ll freeze.
Like sound vibrations in the sand,
This semblance of a song
Will simulate a common band,
Unless the meter’s wrong.
has named his pallid cell a leaf.
Another corpse they call a ghost
Described the notion known as “leaf”
as many leaves contained in one.
Beside the road are tufts of grass
as blades I’ve lumped inside a form.
But now I will create a thing
that never lived, so stammer now,
briefly, in this sibilance,
and let me summon up another specter.
A Mesmer’s gaze that’s void of life,
Abstract, and drinking blood.
Whose flesh that never touched a knife,
Will summon up a flood.
The fiend will quench the parched and mute
And turn their tears to seas.
They’ll rise like vapor from its flute,
But in their form they’ll freeze.
Like sound vibrations in the sand,
This semblance of a song
Will simulate a common band,
Unless the meter’s wrong.
