To live is to be loved What was once dead Now shines with divine ardor Now sings with Warm, lurid glee A soul inhabits me Soft bodies Roughly raked Along the steep, Rocky coastlines I am so grateful To bleed and to be born When sky was scorched When stone turned teeth And floor was replaced With clownish grins O! I knew 'twas high time! To pursue my dreamlife To rise as a the learned Phoenix And take my place among the clay folk I fear not My departure from these melancholic hyacinths Who submit to annual decay The weigh boats Who faithfully wait For messianic sailors To return home From perpetuity Struck glory I have, indeed For my battered lips Have pressed upon A loud Persephone Nestled in remedial soil What gorgeous sorceress Who wore her lungs like wings Wings of vineyard bronchi With citrus blood And oak spit