A Scent Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

A scent
A smoke
A passing under the lantern
Down
Down the street of ancientness
Down the dark
Down delirium of a night
Sleeping birds
Hidden
Nodding
And packs of Cards of Night
And three taverns of delight
In old Valletta!
Wantu
Izet
Derep
Kinst
Ut
Delipi
Izted
Sinet
Izdem
Keli
Oxan
Oxan
Imer
Deli
Rebis
Bleri
Imper
Deref
Kinier
Sepr
Oxan
Oxan
Nimier
Sever
Ghosts dance at night
Skeletons in dark
Shadows in moonlight.
A giant mummy Moor strikes the clock
I heard

Under the Bridge the Hanged Man

Where Black Faiirs gather, - the guillotine/

And
A Giant Cock on the Turret turned

Mechanical and less - all relative!