Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Murder's Valentine

All the old plays are about murder
of one kind or another and whether
one can escape judgment or if
guilt would still win of course but
then be trampled by a net of arrows
for nine years weaving a web of disasters
then fix your mind on the voyage home
your safe return a symbol of the middle
phase in the annual journey of the sun
and whether under certain conditions
revenge could be moored like ships
in the dead of night prepared to strike
burnt umber into the skulls of windy capes
and roar who killed whose famous father.
 

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