(Note: This poem was originally written in 1995 or ’96 and revised in 2021. It was published in Issue 5 of Wine Cellar press in October 2021.)
a Found Fragment in your Firetorn Books
for the Venerable Cotton
] and so my sisters
what shall we ask of the wise oracle
tell of our tall lover is he true
will we find favor in the fair court
singing our songs to the sad king
but that trembling tree its angles trouble us
casting queer shadows where haunted crows bicker
and they will not whisper a word of our fate
unjust or gentle aching or [