The Outsider (Part VII)

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The cardinal wails
Trees lose leaves
The swollen rivers
With stones they cry
They ask
Why
Heavenward, her dying on the breeze.
Body at rest
Piercing shade
Near Methymna shores
On her way to Hades
Muori dannato
Muori muori muori

Arl and Lizzie
Slender candles
Gentle masque of twilight
An emerald earring
Green and silver
The garden shrine
Sitting and watching
Cyclamen breeze
Stirring the branches
The voice of resignation
Dove and crow
Muori dannato
Muori muori muori

‘Karts and pin oaks.
Eliot sired me. Mara and Soma
Betrayed me. By Mara I was found
Sitting cross-legged under the hickory tree.
‘One leg is in Hell, and the other
Remains here. Through the years
You slept. You thought yourself a bien-pensant.
Maybe she never knew. Why do you ask?’
‘Over in Glockington.
I learned to suppress
Pain and Fear.
The subjugation of pleasant things.
Our neighbors just neighbors who knew
The middle ground.’
muori

To Stone Creek then she came

Digging digging digging digging
O Unjust Father I defy you
O Unjust Father I defy

digging

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