A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook
Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
of a half-eaten ram; viscous wounds in earth
opening. What seraphs are afoot.
Gold seraph to gold worm in the pierced slime:
greetings. Advent of power-in-grace. The power
of flies distracts the working of our souls.
Earth’s abundance. The God-ejected Word
resorts to flesh, procures carrion, satisfies
its white hunger. Salvation’s travesty
a deathless metaphor: the stale head
sauced in original blood; the little feast
foaming with cries of rapture and despair.
