By Any Other Name
hortus conclusus
(1430-1432 AD)
don’t let them know
your origins your secrets
hide who and what you are
unholy ghosts will prowl
wild dogs will howl
sister-spouse
a garden enclosed
walled behind whose house
anonymous flowers
roses in abundance
set amongst thorns
sealed-up this fountain now
its well run dry
dead leaves in the bowl
shrunken petals
echoes of children’s voices
their faces hidden
among last year’s leaves
Courbet
(1944 AD)
a deep moist cave
moss-grown cavernous
casting from night to day
synchronous memories
ascent descent blood scent
ejection rejection
tumbling down falling
insidious angel
no room at the inn
trapped no escape
Hieronymus Bosch
black-winged devils
cloud tormented
descending
anonymous red skies
factory and furnace
foundering foundries
mysterious birth myth
turned into lies
virgin berth
borne with tweezers
untouched the channel
from dark to light
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