Mina Loy

Poe

a lyric elixir of death
embalms
the spindle spirits of your hour glass loves
on moon spun nights
 
sets
icicled canopy
for corpses of poesy
with roses and northern lights
 
where frozen nightingales in ilex aisles
sing burial rites
 
Moreover, the Moon—
 
Face of the skies
preside
over our wonder.
 
Fluorescent
truant of heaven
draw us under.
 
Silver, circular corpse
your decease
infects us with unendurable ease,
 
touching nerve-terminals
to thermal icicles
 
Coercive as coma, frail as bloom
innuendoes of your inverse dawn
suffuse the self;
our every corpuscle become an elf.
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