the round valley

in the bottom
in the cup
in the performing
of the labyrinthine castle
at the nadir where the false
coinage plateaus
to reveal its engineering
there is a valley
a synthetic and architectural valley
at the center of the castle
that acts as the site for the fountain
the vinolumen

a pit within a pit
is no snake's nose
no ladder to heaven

and the fountain is no leader
but the fountain (heaving swell)
gives an oracle to these unheeded

is it wine
or is it blood?

the fountain is not name as such
but form
and gives an alternate story

here poor clytemnestra holds
her dying husband agamemnon
like a child, her child
and the wound in his side
is a fountain

is it wine
or is it blood?

and the fountain also fails
to use its auxillary
and the auxillary portion is connected
by a tiled mosaic trough
and at the end of the trough
is cassandra (also a statue)
who views the bleeding husband
the shape
and she also bleeds
from a wound to the head
for she is the witness
to the statue
to the holiness
of this fountain

she bleeds gold and fails
and she bleeds gold
into a trough
and she bleeds wine
into the mouth

wine pours
from her mouth
down into the round valley
and gives an oracle
to these unheeded


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