“And all the ruins of distressful times” - Richard III (Act 4, Scene 4) via
"We had to put up razor barb wire."
"The Question and Its Mark
May I cast a spell on the many swans of Leda,
making at last one spastic blizzard in spring
with only enough divine mania to take one
blinding day from her?
The godbirds and their scopophilia
keep her open for view and review, with ever
new speculum and never the elegant jewelry
of stigmata or a heart of quartz.
May I give her only one death? Can we live if she
lies closed in a single final pose, no syphilitic
autopsy or cygnet interrogation?
May I mark her prophecy,
her presence in the very air, with a single
gargoyle on the streetside wall on a place
of worship, finally allowed inside if only by
disappearing into the stones?
Leda possessed a pair of knees that also bent
in prayer. I ask of you only what she asked for there."
—Brenda Shaughnessy
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