brusque air/wind gummed with gulls

..."but love lingers on" as anachronism/and in its absence/

the performance of its presence/darling.

Demoted to drudge/on the grey bed/and the gossamer gathering into dust curtain/Elohim/in the black corvoid wing/in moth tapestry/in the high court injunction.

shed a tear even/before remembering not to.

broke the container/leakage/and the wrong word slopped out.

The Stygian gloop/and the admission/of another's sin/

brackish the water/bird call across it/the plaintive lilt/of loss.

Baksheesh/for the ferryman/

smooth/the passage over.