That Bright Chimeric Beast
(For Lynn Riggs)
THAT bright chimeric beastConceived yet never born,Save in the poet's breast,The white-flanked unicorn,Never may be shakenFrom his solitude;Never may be takenIn any earthly wood.
That bird forever feathered,Of its new self the sire,After aeons weathered,Reincarnate by fire,Falcon may not nor eagleSwerve from his eerie,Nor any crumb inveigleDown to an earthly tree.
That fish of the dread regimeInvented to becomeThe fable and the dreamOf the Lord's aquarium,Leviathan, the jointed
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