A Sestina...

Picture the sky-high billboards
With black ink dabbled in honey to...

Take me to your wildest party
Where and there I'll strip bare and bubble...

The evil is growing, enlarging and bulging
With the blood of creamed roses and blooms...

I fell in love with a Minotaur last night
And felt dragonflies pierce the dawn...

Here's to insanity and the skipping through the...
Here's to the flying bare beneath the clouds alone...

Kiss the nymph and melt the funnels
Of logic, manners, common sense...

Silence the bleating and pewter the face
Powder the sunlight and knit the lace...

The satellites of the world are barred and still
The grasses are hushed sound is nil...

Asbestos eyes and death breathe mist
The midgets gazed and hissers hissed...

Moisten the mud and unearth the crystals
Shiny, jagged yet old and fake...

We entice enormous leeches in our cries for a hand
I reach into the translucency...