We who pant and part in night's divine design

      We who pant and part in night's divine design
      Lard the stars with tissues of our lies
      Spitting hymns and oaths of "evermore"
      Till all darks daunt or are blindly malign--
5     Full of the guilts we spritzed at the skies,
      Chanting fabrications by the score.
      Will you sit a little while beside me
      Anyway?  Put your hand into my lap,
      Let me have my way?  A little while beside me
10    Lay, and a little love let dribble in our laps.
      Lie with me a little while, tell a fib
      To the fibulating stars that hear our hearts;
      Its not as if they weren't used to our raw squibs,
      Or its worse than what we told ourselves to start.

 

From the collection "Supposing Roses"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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