Tarkovsky's Mirror
08-09-2005, 11:32 PM
By what omniscient star' which did hone
Subservient digits thus, to strip her
From pools of chaste essence discriminant;
Didst thou vouchsafe in beauteous vapour,
And prime celestial bodies alone
In earthly volution, to swill their veins;
Those red, raging rapids that signpost change:
Precipitates 'pon finer thought, life's rain?
And dost thou dictate love, lucid as bone
White clouds feed black gulleys 'midst man's terrain?
Subservient digits thus, to strip her
From pools of chaste essence discriminant;
Didst thou vouchsafe in beauteous vapour,
And prime celestial bodies alone
In earthly volution, to swill their veins;
Those red, raging rapids that signpost change:
Precipitates 'pon finer thought, life's rain?
And dost thou dictate love, lucid as bone
White clouds feed black gulleys 'midst man's terrain?