Onward the fairweather spleen. …
Sylvia Legris
part 1. uprooted the early sky …
On a scale of Lustrous to Sockeye, …
To sow the remote morose root. …
Complex amaryllis — two-faced, …
Unblacken the holy mallow, …
The long incision. The incipient voyage from aortic arch to thoracic inlet. Small-particled is the corpuscled city. (Bustling opuscula.) A city of animal electricity. A lowing cycling mass. Calm the cowed heart. Still the browbeating heart. Cool the controversial hearthstone. Let the blade intervene where the divine intersects bovinity. …
A pepper of bees opens the pupils. …
Under Venus the sugared wound, the heart-strung-up, the viola d’amore. Under Venus the Pliny-prescribed, the horsehair-hanked — not plucked, tugged — the singly sung (catgut kidney-cuffs the caterwaul, a knockback to the viola bastarda). Kittenish! A scalloped flirtatious border — florid cordial pansies (candied adoration). Viola odorata. Parfait d’Amourish. …
A garland to fend off the dizzies. …