Thursday, October 7, 2010

THE BAD KING

Inconstant, urgent
and in vain,
a demon lover
craving woe and then the fall,
needing empty,
hunching inside the garden wall,
watching words
trace frost upon the pear tree hanging over,
crouching,
whispering behind my hands,
my king craft freezing sap.


© 2010 Charlotte Merrill Jensen

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