about Agatha

who’s the mad scientist

in the library

phenomenon

 

her variola ought to be

a stop on my

harmonium mundi

 

her veins of biota

skein the cheese

of my heart

 

I think her sex life

revealed in this

questionnaire about

 

my ability to concentrate

on less than

one thing at a time

 

shows in her eyes

the way

they saunter

 

when they’re

thinking hard

which should be now

 

as they read this drivel

about variola

the vicar’s daughter

 

in her thrilling

redundancy where all paths

lead to roam

 

oh

you’re a rum one in a

jungle, variola

 

shadows of lianas

irradiate your new born

retinas

 

like the X in the angel

who remains faithful

to me alone