The Remains of Day
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Tartaglia Teratos made a green youth
in the urn whose grylliat was butler
to the island's only hearth, a bone
for summer's swoon, which as
a machine, gave birth to logical flowers,
gave botany to a choir whose inflatable
antlers lifted them high into the red
interior of a hall, which like
a walking egg, would look over
its shoulder into the oval of a
Strauss Waltz wit-maned
in bag-piped figs, whose loving
and seedless aqua rose from a
silt of frames to gift a key-hole
to an imprisoned spider, lucky,
lucky little china-box, whose
borderlands are crazed with resorts
seen emptying their ferris wheels
of improper Herculeses into
a captive garden in the form
of a Pegasus, which though flat,
is eternally leaping skyward, and
eternally pointless, though miraculous
with edges, whose fictions befriend
an old dowser, who, glabrous
with delight, is half submerged
in a bauble's absent bowler,
a house-coat of rhinoceros hornbills
dappled with muddy Lazarus,
whose foulest mood is constant,
but which represents an innocence
unrivalled by any hatchling not
tutored by the imaginations
of geoponic black:

"You know when the light is just right,
you can just see Oannes in Anthony Hopkins'
eyes.."

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