more apocryphal Fontegaia.

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Solomon (a sort of Orpheus) could talk to animals
called all the birds   to a Middle East conference
except disobedient Hoopoe   (with his impudent
crest) lit out for the territory   sent back signals

 
New-Founde Land   past Sabaday Lake   upstream
from Nile   & soon   elliptical (circumferential)
messages   began to emanate (confidential) from
there   rumors & telegrams   (Is Queen Bea On

 
the Make?)   Sol (looking for chess partner)
became intrigued & (in time) intrigue became him   
too   for the searchlight Queen   was like   a slim
flicker of sword-blade   ever on his tail (still master

 
of defense   & flighty game) she showed the moon
to his sunshine   until the day of the (unlooked-for)
eclipse   when she jumped him   like a sidewinder
(blindsided) black   to the whites of his eyes (one

 
blinkered mountain-cock   one shady   Lady Grey)
Only a wild goose chase   for the wisest man alive?
Well (spake Sun   in a Milky Way)  their beehive
was productive   Earth bore fruit thereof (away

 
downstream)   Honeychile   sunk the foundation
for a sweet return   & in that milky (mnemonic) haze
suffusing   all the suspiring trees   ringleted, maze-
feathered Hoopoe   looped-a-loop over his friend

 
Raven   & as light grew stronger   &   pervaded
everywhere   its gauzy lance (through magnifying
glass) tapped Leah's mane   Natasha's limping spring
tattooed the track (flagroot)   where they waded in