Stewart C. Baker – PSYCHOPOMP.COM https://psychopomp.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:11:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://psychopomp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-gold-P-square-32x32.png Stewart C. Baker – PSYCHOPOMP.COM https://psychopomp.com 32 32 Halsing for the Anchylose https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/oct-2021-issue-72/halsing-for-the-anchylose/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:02:23 +0000 https://psychopomp.com/fantasy//halsing-for-the-anchylose/ They made the finest things
of bone and zealous shell:
homes for the scholars who
scuttled maze-like down
into their recondite holes
to resurface with gasped,
grasped pearls which seed
quixotic exquisitions
and ended always in death
and erasure; masks, too,
for the squalid of heart,
which hid and rendered animate
their unsuitable bent,
their burdensome loathing of life.

Like all constructed things,
none satisfied; all were shadows
cast by light, a pantomime
of the extinctions which
birthed them.

Look, you living, to those who
lived and are gone. Dream,
if you can, their onerous
weight, their limitless absence.

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