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Mimesis.

"Forthwith, in full Gorgonian venom steeped,
Allecto seeks the realms and lofty halls..."

--Cranch's Vergil (1872)

"The poet’s acute insights into human psychology have given these tales a parable-like power—narcissism, anyone?—while the tortured physicality at the heart of his narratives has made them irresistible to artists across the centuries."

"8 blankets"

1.
bumpy burb of habits
bonny greenclave of lean-tos
Cretans destroyed by streetlights
the strange life of ciphers

abut-on-loam bombhush

2.
snorkel-breath ensnares you
my snide spider-weaving
antelucan okra

but if a dark sparkle
danced in the Delft onset

3.
   quarry · sung
rancid credence
   orchid pyre

asphyxiates
   burst ingot

A Flame.