Mercury Series

Mercury An Angel Having Recently Visited You Sent back Metal Film of Your Ancient shores Cratered silver with loneliness the Humming of Silver Tides Or discs bent longingly With long lonely empty looks Disc crater eyes alloyed obsidian Looking back at the messenger With cold memory Of the abandonment Which bore their emptiness In the insane heat of the void And now leering livid Yet recent in disdain the merging antiphony Like arcadia from the ashes For and through the endless night And disenchanted contempt Which bares no life Except the whisper of Loneliness