Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Herodiade: Sketches #3

Add to this gems, sapphires and diamonds
Delicately paired, peerless crystals embedded
In metals whose precious eternity gleams
On a perishable thing, evoking the splendor
Of her youth, wise in its authority to bend
The thoughts of men, but also gay, also
Folly, since the sunlight sparkles
Hundreds of hues, split by the sober razor's
Promises into the leprechauns
Of dance, into a philosophy whose secrets
Hide in the vision's hidden ends.

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