nepeldamais nepenthes

musicked dark against the curtain

the breast-plate hovering

back-lit

a trojan horse of a lamp

allowing all these militant photons

to stand at ease

among Circean groves

of velvet furniture

the painting

of Tiresias

stepping forth

newborn and whole

from the wound

of Telephus

his hands replaced

with seven-tongued

rams' heads

whose knuckle horns

resound

and this dark ovary

at my knee

a book in which the solemn word

as chiral sea yes

washes over and hecticks

the fume 

abdrehen servilis

alarming the white lace

of nictitating monkeys

which form the walls 

the word its stalls

dubtàreu

for the hollow mantle of its head contain

for mantenersi plain

a small and hand-carved mandarin duck

of ivory

which hangs as an uvula

embrued with a drunken êcouocheuse

which clings fast to the rheum:

presto! scollegheranno!