“Though lovers be lost, love shall not;
and Death shall have no Dominion.”
Dylan Thomas
House of Dreams
4-6 /6
4
Pressed between
the pages of my dream:
a lingering scent;
the death of last
year’s delphiniums;
the tall tree
toppled in the yard;
a crab apple
breaking into flower;
a shard of grass
as brittle
as a bitter tongue
at winter’s
end.
5
A leaf lies down
in a broken
corner
and fills me
with sudden silence.
I revise
our scrimshaw history
carving fresh tales:
ivory runes on new
found bones.
6
A vixen
hunts for my heart.
She digs deep
at midnight
unearthing
the dry teeth
you buried
from my borrowed
head.
rogermoorepoet 
This is outstanding!
Wow
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Thank you. I titled my poetry kook, Though Lovers Be Lost, after the line from Dylan Thomas. We are both from the same town in Wales and I have lived with his poetry all my life.
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Image of fox is great … I love to watch them hunting, pouncing ….
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Smelly old things they are, especially when you get close to the den. Beautiful colors when they are in fine condition, though.
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Awesome! Such a great read, I couldn’t even pick a line as a favorite to quote.
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Thanks, Tanya, and so glad you liked it. I think I like “ivory runes on new found bones”. In Oaxaca, they used the rib bones of jaguars as writing pads for the histories of famous people. I remember some new examples being found in a new dig while we were there. Quite a sensation.
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That would be fascinating to see. I almost picked that line, but then I kept reading, and it was all too good to pick from!
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The runes are wonderful. Many of them have been moved to Mexico City for safe-guarding in the National Museum of Anthropology, but there are some left in Oaxaca. There are modern replicas too if I remember correctly. They also recall the wonderful scrimshaw of our own sailing and whaling ships.
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Oh! ‘the dry teeth you buried from my borrowed head!’ What a way to end this!
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You place them on a string and wear them as a necklace! I’ll start the next (and final, I think) TLBL sequence tomorrow.
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Creepy! 😜 Looking forward to it!
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Actually, there are two sequences to come. Suite Ste. Luce is the one I start tomorrow. It’s very different from these … quite an evolution.
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Gee i love this one, Roger. @
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So pleased you like it, allison. We were Skyping with Ottawa yesterday: what fun!
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