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Unreasonable Reasons for Fighting Dragons: Off Planet, Exiled


"Unreasonable Reasons for Fighting Dragons: Off Planet, Exiled"

I could write something beautiful for you,
like outside the windows
the raindrops slide off tips of green leaves
there are tears like pearldrops falling
onto moist lips like ripe rosebuds 
hints of myrtle lemon that the tongue licks
like sticky marshmallow fingertips sweetly glued
softly placing a bookmark, between pages.
we should stop there for the night, before bedtime, 
because bedtime is where love waits impatiently 
for all manner of things, 
like daughters immersed in all their removed seasons
reflected in unreasonable reasons 
for fighting dragons in their imagined labyrinths 
I cajole you, I proffer 
that the very first love you will ever know
has prickly barbs like a bee that stings 
and sticks deep in the skin like supersedure, 
n.b. for hives, use Royal Crème, 
and the preceding Queen bees 
take an unaccustomed back seat,
sipping thoughtfully on honeyed 
words and mead 
in that tricky place, 
where their children once played
and now those daughters
are the superseding 
Royal Queens;
they are without doubt 
the strongest in this case, 
immortal paramours 
and whilst their doppleganger stance 
is terribly traumatised and competitive, 
the archives, I have learned 
as chief librarian in this place,
in grounds most territorial, 
must be handled 
with speak easy kid gloves,
insert the softest lambs’ wool here -

black sheep
all of the above



Candide Diderot. ‘24

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