So Where Are All the Mad Albanians

      So where are all the mad albanians 
      Who strike their sticks by blinding right!
      The angels of an infinite dreaming,
      Who soar in elegant rhythms of soul,
5     Above crystal peaks, in unbound revelation?
      The solitary voice, like a shaft of flame
      Dances like silver stickpins of rhyme
      Among the eternal fires of inviolable extant,
      The triumphant victims of terrifying step 
10    Who rise to the highest in dawns new trick 
      And kick away chipping casts of despair.
      O mad Albanians, their souls are tortured, 
      Sounding cries of no more words...
      Daniel B. Dermond

 

From the collection "Ghosts and Princes"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.