"My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants"

invigilator · Ottoman urn
Viking indigo · sauterne

ruby of lost sunsets · psaltery twang
slowly they burn

the song · no longer dead on the page
its portals · the one return

i have danced there · though i do no more
the place is finished · and rimed with firn


"Nobody knows how they did it..."