Lucky Lad Unknowing
Worthless, yet lucky little David! Inexperienced,
the bright delirium
(a bedroom game)
of a future soliloquy
playing coy
backslides Her into salt
and you resign yourself
to Jopah. Beware the Fish.
Perchance this dream of yours
takes the form of Cybele;
or a fountainous grin
words cannot hate;
or an ethereal world
full of yellow gas that overwhelms
with happiness. No rum till the sun
flies limpid into your wicked heart; implodes—
scions: fatherless glass shards, old trances, and dumbwaiters.
Fire
in his lungs;
FIRE
on his tongue.
Though if hallow fire be in his heart,
wherefore, then,
thou quietest art? Thou pure and faithful
for him to mold; fashion;
uphold;
caress always in lovely twain?
Perhaps above the clouds,
you are there.
I peer
by the Hudson pier
to discover, to you,
I was never as dear.
Copyright © Richard H. Dunsany | Year Posted 2017
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