A Dying Violet In The Sidelight

      Incandescent will--- to forgive youth its brevity!---
      To alight the summer's maze, and inscape the outward bower
      (Crowded with the loud lopped roundnesses of bees)
      And verve to rediscover all blood's white hilarity
5     (Super-attenuated supernatural power)---
      In the passing of this passioned blossom, violet
      Ranging every decaying shade to black-brushed death,
      The dark backward collapse of veins, and after
      To in-breathe in owning nostrils, high and hard, to let
10    This scented tomb upon my palm invigorate my breath!
      As a wilding god among the coal-folded valleys
      I came, overturning tenderly the violet's motioned growth
      By the ransacking lightnings of my mind's designs
      Returning tarred Time from its monotonous pitch
15    From birth to prime, renewing this velvetest skin:
      To untouched youth pulled back, seeds in my mouth unspoken,
      Like shouted prayers kept in a cracking heart
      Germinating nothing unless I sighed, and I was happy.

 

From the collection "Divine Revolt"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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