you are the missing light you are Mithras
you straddle the hidden moon in Taurus
and lead skies of Saturn ...
Cézanne’s skull is the first fruit of time
the apples and pears skulls too and not seed
laid out on ...
you have taught me that ink by-passes time
and takes a back-road from reality
to go on a short-cut through ...
darkness outside - would Plato’s cave really work ?
the threefold city and threefold soul
would operate beneath a starless mirk
calculate ...
Domitian put on a banquet
where the dinner guests were introduced
to their deaths amidst black drapes and blankets
and ...
the red king who lay with the white queen
putrefies into a blackened head
the black sun after stands purged ...
Napoleon III is our furthest
pylon of reported memory -
one man’s great-aunt saw him at Chislehurst
I a foetus grew ...
the stone is fruit with her and the marble
still breathes - her dress falling from breast and thigh
while beneath ...
the widow is a maenad undone
by monologue while the young man whose shirt
she did up could stand for ...
if Winchester’s the capital of Thrace
Mutability makes St Albans stand
Thameside and Ireland’s an inside-out place
where Machiavellis plant ...