10 September 2013

Star bright

Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen
 
 
How are you fallen from Heaven
brighter than the other stars?

A doll, an idol, made of alabaster,
hollowed eyes filled with lazuli

walking on the land among aeroliths,
the moon’s horns in your hair

into the purpling evening you descend
to light the mansion of love.

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