A Catalogue of Spells, III

October 22, 1676
8:31 p.m.
Kórinthos, Greece

Benim Sevgili Duka Birol,

Constantinople

Majesty of ebonmost cabal
pray gothic in corners of your malfeasance
Diplomats of finer sense
effect art through inclination
esteem Minares stand rich
perfidy yet woven
of tapestries drunk deep
in piquant amethyst garnet pearl
now one Mosaic
this artifice of ages
laced grim atop tombs
of sinless poets
caprice, gossamered ornaments
of the feint.

Russet hues treason
come autumn’s folding
duplicitous court held of
Sakellarios spurious in origin
volatile acrid
lauding fete within gasp
of torch-licking Illuyankas
whence half-moon engravings
beribbon ceilings azure
and stone colonnades scrape
celestial bowels
amid buttress of histories
peppered in anguish
cunning and power.

Bazaars in your tenet
chariots amber debauch
evermore baiting
labyrinthine august
O Byzantium vampIr
of a starless chasm or
vague along seam of
the darkening black
gorged in elusory spectres ignoble
wrought from the ashen lore
conjury of elapsed devils
and hallowed men.

Minnettar Olm,

Gidiane




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