violets
issuant
of · spare
lore · all
ebony · to
try · Eloi
so · ollav


"...His pupils in the peopled portico..." --Dobell


clepsydra
loon · rotor
enamel · had
pry · of · day
story · was
yet · satrap
done · atone
ruin · shall
at · bivouac


"Optatian is not a good poet; he is not even a bad poet. His poems are prodigies, monsters..." --W Levitan writing in Transactions of the American Philological Association


"Britney Suicide Watch"

one thought to move among the stars
my path wavering opens two pairs of doors
broken sensibilia
fiddled with the stone
laughter took the bullet
laughter went alone
writing frail on stone
with one condign uncle
one condign pumpkin
laughter went awry


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