Moreau

Evening and Sorrow
Together again
Like spring everywhere
Winter in California
All the beautiful dead
Green the trees
Black the creek its
Boundless debauchery

Water fable or
House in the sun
Angels of Sodom
Hover among
Heron or ibis great
Ladders golden
Sections overlaid
Made to cross
In solar boats as
Before saying
Far from beautiful
But am your faithful friend
Grammar of your ornament

Abducted her there
Then or me
One of those nights he
Fought the last fight
Culminating in birds whose
Confirming network of signs
Pose the question

Or creature who wounded
But will you?
All the time or never
Remembers when she
Forgets she said
Forget me