Friday, December 26, 2025

Poem: Actor Afield

 

Actor Afield

 

dazed

under a mist-tripped

totter of stars,

 

each footstep a void

which a breath chases,

paradise lost!

 

what light yonder?  why

a world so shabby

it daunts proof?

 

can god not fairly

scatter rain?

or yoricks?

 

it’s trafficky out,

fuddles of drizzle.

 

lunar sips

of dewdroppy curves

must give us pause 


from gropes.

 

what Virgil to guide me

through these woods?

what mystical nymph?

 

some flinching exeunt?

a Cupid’s bow of comet?

some sorcery of cowslip?

 

 

 

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Midsummer Night's Dream themes in last stanza 


Long, brutal grading/marking of papers ended on xmas day, about half way through.  Still in shock and daze from immersion in a tunnel of student papers.

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