V: A Slow Recovery

Can you see Psyche
with her iridescent
wings the wind can shred
floating over the sea like a
bird that has forgotten
land come to perch
on three sharp corners:
animal
human
and the numbered essence of the world?

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Power is still the only word
and sex and money and growth and pain:
The Lord of the dance is lover and tool
and he loves the woman who loves the game.

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