Caged
you can enslave me
with your soft laments
those decrepit enchantments
that hold there weight
in the provinces
of righteousness -
do you find it mad
that I would welcome
such veiling darkness
that I would insist
in its treachery-
assume nothing of me
that you could understand
that I would ultimately invite
such a warming invitation
that I would grant access
by what cannot
be yoked
Mandeville 2026
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