Friday, December 13, 2013

The Day of Exacting Craft


Was it I who said that one becomes what one
Forgets? how ridiculous! now it’s the moon-hour
And cold and here mopes Death the thirteenth
Card of the major arcana waiting quietly for a
Cadaverous countenance to become youthful
And comely again O what catastrophe of logic
Or lust made Death the most misunderstood
Card of the Tarot? there was this sharp thing
That happened to the ruined naked face 
In the marbled imperfection of memory but
Nobody remembers anymore what or why
The sword was driven so deep the hilt so rusted
So much absence in those eyes one imagines
There the rubble of sleep the moment of love

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