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19.v.26
last dragon
ekphrastic for Edward Coley Burne-Jones’ ‘1866 ‘The Fight: St George
kills the dragon V’
this isn’t for anyone’s dinner
there is a surgical precision to it
as if it were a violence rehearsed
the bloody cape already dry – a prop
as we to watch
all eyes intent
and oh the fearful clasping of hands
blood sun already set
just a little dragon, this last one
quite harmless really
lost from tribe
and that there’s your mythology
jousting pole snapped off
could almost lick, this loving
trusting dragon pup
with platypus webbing
teeth unintended
one admires the painter’s skill to remind us
you will need armour for this
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