Post-Titular View (Invented Before Time)

dromena in aspic
and let their fades be full
in Sur the sound went major
toward the fall unsure
so the verger says

and here the nymphs pop out
from the fruit
and the thistle assume
its bag-pipe universal
origin

toward what fog
does the essene marching throne
convey

birds at the seaside now whirl
and gate
numinal day
its spread clean feat

how like an icon
the thinkers to the organ
one of them lifting
her arm
to the sky and

dromena in aspic
and München dark

around the silver stag
of the clerestory

water-spaniel
faithful