Sinuous, I wound my way
through the darkness where the forget-me-nots grow.
Enthralled, I watched the drowning wolf dance,
lost within the river’s icy flow.
Sleepless, I leapt
between the storm’s soothing fangs
that fell as the morning star, violent and slow.
Blind, I slew my saviour thrice-born
stained by yearning’s ichor, the horrendous crow.
Buried, I burnt in the liquid sky
laughing silence, smothered by fresh fallen snow.
Waking, I heard the mute howl deafening,
mourning the comrade consigned to the abyss below.
Halting, I found my place
amid that flowered plain, and found peace
akin to that the dead do know.