II

your documented terror of dementia
due to some merely earthly absence

This package of ago
creaks with the horror of echo
out of void

the bloom of beloved
decoyed
to decay, by the finger
of Hazard the swindler

The deathly handler
left no post-mortem mask - - -
only a callous earth made mouldy
your face excelling Adonis

Posing the extreme enigma
in my Bewilderness

Can whom has ceased to be
Ever have had existence

No longer any you as addresser
there is no addressee
to dally with defunct reality

Can one who still has being
be inexistent?

I am become
dumb
in answer
to your dead language of amor

Diminuendo
of life's imposture
implies no possible retrial
By my so now-while self
of my cloud-corpse
Beshadowing your shroud

the one I was with you
inhumed in chasms,
craters torn by atomic emotion
among chaos

No creator
reconstrues scar-tissue
to shine as birth-star.