the sapphirous eye of transits
eclipsed
the noonlit emulsion
the rye-sky
from five shores
an imp preponderance in cowslip
winter vegetate feeding robins
bored
to their wits’ end adze-like
stacked at attention

nacreous
adze-heads
hooks
in the place of robins
dog-eared page
in The Book of Furnaces
thyrsus and wine cup
sprig and caduceus
two cones

that the song will stem from
four stars
attention beloved
I dreamt too
Dante slept through such conditions

Winner of the 2012 Winter Anthology Contest