Renegade Pearl

      The renegade pearl of her conscience unconsumed
      Writhes repentless in the purl of shifting fires;
      I taste her infant breath-- like asphodels
      Enduring rain, scenting perduring nothing risible rose!
5     Her hesitant spirit wakes the finitudes we crave,
      Suspect eyes reinventing the evening's spent char,
      Giving night the one, acetylene touch
      While she trembles alone in her vintage heaven of wait.
      The light in her chaste fingers undoing rue
10    From all this blessing conspire lift the sacral hue;
      Spilling love unbelievable from her telltale eye,
      They caress the everliving in eternal charge.

 

From the collection "Ghosts and Princes"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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