#2052 - millefleur unicorn

 

2052

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13.viii.25

millefleur unicorn

ekphrastic

 

can only be dreamt

in a woodsmist field of flowers

 

monocerous

gender fluid

 

fabric crepuscular

way obscure

 

kosher in Moses’ day

a may-as-well immortal

 

so the unicorn will find you

this is unhunting

 

you must come alone

at wit’s end, past pale

 

mythungulate, a beer for this

and latterly, with wings

 

the unicorn’s language

is renewed with very word

 

all the animals understand

it’s speech as with the stars

 

if you know for a moment

this is a dream

 

the unicorn will vanish or you will

perhaps together

 

stay very still

be vast with what light remains

 

I myself – an imagined creature

come by dream, as all

 

no one knows here who they are

no one knows why, when – we trust

 

the unicorn is a teller of tales

makes things up about us

 

only in such a fastness of moss

of clover below

 

according to Shakespeare taunted

self-skewering on a tree, as charged

 

more commonly lulled

by innocent attire

 

mixed with juice of the pomegranate

alicorn powder cures anything

 

archangel at the trumpet blast

bring an apple, bring the sugar cube

 

it’s just here we’ve slipped

you’ll see when it’s time to tusk it

 

a broken chain, heraldic

all the strength is in the horn

 

here’s Actaeon narwhal skewered

a virgin wild taming dark thoughts

 

asleep in lap

passion’s incarnation

 

our unicorn is vanishing rare

precious for that

 

this one’s over the rainbow

here’s how there’s pointing the way