Equinox

Of all the creatures in the wood

One law is commonly understood

Deep in the heart of

Fontainbleau

The marriage of a whore and

Jew The bride’s true dowry black rocks

Equinox The wedding is followed by gifts

Catherine de

Medici lives

Silverfish quilting ********

Despotic owl conducts the wolves

And mulls attacking a fox

Equinox Equinox

Red birth mark

Equal light

Equal dark

North to south

Thoth with pen

Let us give praise and thanks,

Amen Celestial bodies transform to flesh

And commune with the wedding’s guests

They twist and thrust and whine and grope

As if under a microscope

In hope to to catch small pox

Equinox