Rigor's Feast

Rigor’s Feast

Rigor’s doomed, Reason’s tamed

Raven opens the wings,

Light is tested through taints,

Boldness, covered with wigs

Self-proclaims and here shames

All the natural Growth,

Surface-bounded shakes,

Proving strength of the loath…

That is Radiance, wrapped

In the cowardly Gloom:

Cheating seems overlapped,

Like deceitful is Moon

In the midnight’s outbreak

And despair outburst –

Conscience, wrapped in a rake,

Here safe is and lost…

Superficial drains

Flesh of Surface-Palette:

Labyrinth of the brains,

Built for hybrids, will let

Each, whose nerve is a thread,

By a needle defeat –

And black-feathered, wax-made

Wings then use, after Feast…