Decomposing fig
the abject sleeper
bears over his heart.
A clown’s matrix
close to betrayal,
goaded most easily my lordship,
or might it be the watch is undermanned?
Will she ravish them unawares?
Rosy-fingered, peddle them
to coda and genuflection?
Catholic of assignation
the curtain tells her stain,
who rises skyward
in a shift of gold.