A Quire Shield

abit off the string

while a bridle lay idle

in the corn-fell’d awns

 

this from a burgher

the furthest borough too near

a knot-maid’s compeer

 

and a bizarre hare

or clean bird from Chiapor

illegibly more

 

a sigh fore a bier

fore a bitter crone that’s morn

overfed faintly

 

far in the hedges

wild grasses a burnt rose

a silk-maid’s laughter

 

moor’d at thereafter

rather as a wool-card’d spool

anneal’d & utmost

 

an aul-size for caps

one fool sent for glazier tools

this dew on the sett

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4 thoughts on “A Quire Shield

  1. It is very pleasing when your poems get drawn out longer, for me at least. I get so intrigued by who you dismantle and repurose the language most times. What id ‘Chiapor’? I couldn’t find it anywhere in either my wornout Diction or thesauorosus.>KB

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    1. Truly, Sirrah, but a seedy place, too small a map;
      you hike there through Kush, quietly, in a monsoon; and you’ll
      be there by noon…otherwise we’ll be gone

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