“Kai moirai, adonai”

Pound

Arkham asylum: blind, searching

Within icy waters of tv, batgirl

Or was it me? And who got here first, in all my morality?

In my madness, am I batgirl or Emrys, trapped in Arkhams icy waters?

Obsessed, blind, groping for- where did she go?

Obsidian butterfly, my eye did penetrate my heart,

How did you get within those walls, darkling?

How penetrate a psychos armour? I’ll be daring, fluttering away, I’ll pursue-

I surface

And follow

Ever after age revolves and passes, in your turning head,

See you me? Or am I mad?

I hear you, you hear me? Be I still in Arkham, why do you keep disappearing?

I tell you:

Shining, defiant,

Emrys I be.

But you flutter before the moon

Where worlds of religions meet,

Druidry into Buddhism, into Aztec, blend into

You I see,

I, Emrys, blending,

Revolutions overturned in the night sky,

A new pattern, I, like dawn, becoming, obsidian finger pointing: a sadomasochist moon beginning.