What I would give to know your words,
and how I weep to fear them.
A murky lake of trembling light,
a spangled heaven of diluvian night:
...
Red, round thing,
you wink at the mirror.
It winks back, a flash of white.
...
I am mute -
dumb, my mouth is gone,
my face a wall,
my tongue a caged and crippled beast.
...
You,
My verse has been robbed of you.
Tarnished now, torn down and
...