icarus

for swol'n icarus

incense, the emerald or

the auburn burning

beached bright as venus

after a long night in the deep sea

 

penelope

waiting so long the old dogs went blind

hearthed in a corner of a wild coast

sweet singing ariel

first led me to you

sounding a lyre

in another world turning behind me

i turned to stone stuck to a shadow

a blind old seadog stonedead under the sun

 

he flies home now

phoenixed in two years

and you told me there

is time left

sitting under a tree at the day's end end of the earth