Poem #61
Paladin of Dachau wreathed in lamplight chivalry
And a stallion of fireflies, Dresden plates
And Deuteronomy’s cauldron uplift in turn
Romantic hooves before their barrage breaches mantle,
Rapturing dust in ribbons: dreadlocks of Heisenberg
Hung where compasses could never prophesise,
Curtail for the mapmakers of middle distance
Where continents meld in lines of inky Birkenau,
Tectonics baffled by the horserider that moves
Mountains as if the Earth moved only to his canter,
As if the chart margins were but the whites of his eye
Flecked with the ashes of children, stinging in the wind.
- Malb 12/07/2011 19:52
