'A STRANGE SIGHT

The sea-bream, died frozen in a frigirator,
While waiting the sensual night-feast,
Now perspires.

The record whirling round at the banquet,
Being impatient of ennui
Does shriek.

The white bone,
Looking at Mr. Rat,
Numbles incantation.'

--Yun-su Ham, op cit

    "Counterfeit

The wall of faces reverie
When seen quells guilted mind--
From fathers angered vision
To dilate and minus

The eternal bird fathoms
And folds its brown gauze
With talons from its own--
Discovered...

Intended--but from self destroyed
The fatal error combines
And as condition creates
Effulgences

The aqua vein bones in marble
Whose arcane presence boasts
Beauty--the armless dancer
Unable to hoop or swoon
To lulling chirp
Finds break
Flees to cold place
Both less than cave to crook
Telling mimer as ultimate--
Speaking salvific as caused"

--Ovid Neal III, op cit

"However strongly one may be disinclined to do so, I think one
must accept the disturbing and disconcerting fact that it is
possible to write very great poetry about illusions." --J B Leishman,
introduction to Rilke's Later Poems