Henry's Sheba (down south)

RORSCHACH FIGURE

This gaunt, towering, aged pine,

adorned with a scattering

of obsolete Christmas

lights, draws a straight sober line

lifting its crow’s nest to point

of perihelion (invisible sun

behind galactic one).

My ghost-ship creaks with accent

grave along her seventh wave

(sky-reckoning) – southern

constellation, borne

on Magellanic surf.  An octave

mutely unfolds – an origami

Chinese lantern, spun

outward (on tiny silken

struts) into a diamond Chi-

Rho maze – Rorschach figure

of raven, or monarch

brain (Venn-Neva wreck)...

my spider-path, or Chartres lure.

Eurydice of Dream Song,

Henry’s Sheba down south.

Proceeds by word of mouth –

transfigures saturnine keening

to hopeful whistle.  Chickadee,

junco?  Woodpecker –

rousing Ravenna nature

morte (ligneous crucifix-aubade).

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