jus so curioglow
bearing narrow flusters
by the addled cairn and longbow
with floret and kindled over
the fulfilment of a closer
sweet glee of reaffirming
casting maypole shallows
dip and wax the waning
in this rife vehement yearning
© Curtis Ackie 2022
Ithell Colquhoun, Scylla (1938)
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