Guiltless Ghost














































































































































































































































but then,
with her joyous radiant reply,
began to ring proud,
near to silent,
chosen dearly beloved duets
of the soon to be avowed
over-quick, under-thrift
leveled-as-only-lightning-struck fools.




































When, on the
obliging tail-plume of a
puffed-out cardinal
swooped pietistic
from pompous rafters
to call final the
splitting
refrain of barring strains-












working in its own
piercing patronizing
displeasure,
she would in time
return to its roost
with its own, no lesser-measured
resounding vain
meted pains-
















































































































































the warming
bewitted
fledgling,
in a
dicey
corner
found,
brazenly
hustled
to
hatch a
sky-reaching
counter-courting
of
eminent
malefic
danger.












































this mantled, and so too in turn,
cunning huntress in wait,
but coping,
downed

her seized gauntlet,
over-dangled, as running it by,
neath the
over-clouded, bitters-laced nest.








































































































































































So alike
needles leading thread,
her sprightly steps wove
still clearer
his next premier course
fiercest craved
with catered
allusive lyric,












































































































as his til lonesome made-in-
front-of-friars’-watch vow ever held,
as his til lonesome made-in-
front-of-friars’-watch vow ever held
a Toledo-trained sword in his
inscripted venerated anchor-stone,
aweighed now
nearer within his breach.




















































































































































































































































































For, if mis-(or just) heard
as yet unhitched,
had he so-
tempted forever and a day shy-
slithered imprudently
toward core cravings
through an
unenshrined fertile passage,
























Thus
contesting
the
cold,
rigid
reckoning of
daylight’s
disclosure,
clandestinely
converted it
quickly to more
convincingly
clean
over
haul of

uncolored
consecrated stone,




























































































































































and her torrid breeze
long ago ignited two inflated
two-toned sapphire globes
of rapture that had ascended
his gripping limb
with her balanced great matter
in its wicker baskets
to radical new biblical height.




































































































































































































































































And before the next
third new moon waned,
as her
tiring-fiery-headstrong-til-full-retimbred-to-trebling-frame
had, when due, undelivered too
on her narrow-eyed now,
in reflection, smoky, wick-less
undying sovereign promise,




























































































































































































































































to both the
ruly mob under-coerced,
over-eager over-long
to tie her token noose suspended
and the
still-swooning-over over-coerced
left for under-tangled
knot to be roped in,




























































































































































































Til,
only
beyond
their
ragged
breathy
panes,
rolled

the fellow
sacrificial
tolls
of the ere
forged
god’s
apocalyptic
indulgent
thunder,
















































Her indurated soul
arisen so tranquil
on its vaulted chamber’s
final precipice
had given
slender comfort
to a crescendoing
lamenting choir,
























































































































but after
say
more
the
elegist
sang
another
one and five chimes
.












Before over-long,
beamed
the elusive rays,
lorded

over-vital
over all,
wan

in the ever leaden sky;








































as lost
to their labored

sole Pyrrhic victory,
the lone obeyance
to an ever out-sizing greying cur,

when too late,
he favored, wardenesque,
singly over five and VI to reforge.








































His eraser struck the second
of these nigh unreadable chapters,
turned now
to a tutoring lesson
for the other maids
or maidens in wait to learn
or to her own sisterhood’s
laudatory riveting lyrical chaplet,








































































in the ever
still invisible sphere
of her just
seconds and hours
that unjustly
only came
long-drawn
to sooner still pass;
























For she oft drew,
and draws still,
pouncing pride's retractable knives
out fitter still
for a king unexposed-
more fore, less past
his jugular swipe's timeless
edifying echoes first knelled-













































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