Meneláos, poem by Evan Jones

      Don’t fear the iron moon
      said the orange broken inside me
      don’t fear the darkening sun
      the ruined coffins
      the mother of rain without eyes
      don’t fear the black wings
      of birds
      inside your head
      while sleeping
      and suddenly he began
      to shake violently
      and awoke

      Look at how Isidore shines up there!
      How with a rope he descends from a star

      Meneláos the ill, they call him down here.


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