not once, but twice
when twice; as yellow as the dialled sun where mapped a jewel
on swords that poked and doubted doubt herself
he of the sperm whale white that captured cloth
coved one sudden impact on a suspect clone
not twice behind. not once since sailed a fever on the black bog
have I or all the patterns of the speared eye
ran mocking with the corners of the loose head swim;
the grating of the hard skin in the soft bowel
not once, but twice
the prawn that pricked three titles from the plagued sloth
the wrath of gold. the bath that bathed the beauty of the crabbed moor
it is here when twice, she stalked with mainstream eyes
the cobbled fires that once became an ogre on her nest
as mountains dressed as soldiers, grew each one severed arm
and pounded with their knuckles on her chest;
one letter add. now beast becomes a breast
that fed a thousand ships between a sirens summer fest.
not once. not twice. but three times now the moon
has seen our maiden sink, but rise
each time her flowers bloom;
our mothers earth of decomposing light
god speed and may the storm that flights your stars
be as one with the healer of the sight;
somewhere our castled sea
not once, but twice
with fish-wood waves on dolphins ice
no death has dared live twice;