ruined cathedral / temporary gods // Christ's human face / crust of dried blood // marble stormclouds / darkly religious // dew on a leaf / raindrops on the gargoyles // clocktower, alive / astronomical cog-imps // white cloth / upturned haycart // worship, worship / Death weaves a tapestry // blind father / monsters in the woods // golden light / St Mary wears a blue robe
terror, mortal terror / the passion of St Teresa of Avila // Macbeth's dagger / a bed full of lice // gold, red, black, mahogany / thou churlish fool // singing crystal / Galileo sighs // king me, queen me / garden of mathematics // Christ reigns forever / the music of money // speak the truth / I die // red wine / don't be such a Jesuit // death to shadows / more light, more light
shot silk, purple-blue / white cravat, black solitaire // the cuckoo-clock town / English practicality // house of irreligion / a duel shall settle this // knifepoint, gunpoint / apples tumbling from skirts // I have diagramm'd the world / I have charted its desires // kingdom: animalia / the heart is not an organ // shoe polish / the chirurgeon's zealous knife // European monkey-man / dawn is upon us // more light, more light / read to me
do you remember the cathedral / unbuttoned coat // Shakespeare reanimated / starving artist // angry Vesuvius / no more corsets // rearing white horse / blood on the snow // lily-stalks / Goya's jacket // storm and stress / the blue cliffs beckon // teaspoon by silver teaspoon / black smoke, white sand // the swing, the leap / a nightmare // do not give me false flowers / these, sir, are our failures
heartfelt letter / violated maid // let us go to Scotland / pneumonia's flowers // lost at sea / in nothing but a nightgown // mist on the moors / newsprint, scandal // tea in a train compartment / daguerreotype of a dead child // cholera comes to visit / O what mine eyes have seen // dark-bellied factory-beast / teeth of fire // North Pole, South Pole / India, Africa // half-mourning for a daughter / lights in the fog
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