My dreams are filled prescriptions stored
In bottles labelled with your name
To wean me off our memories—
To cure my inveterate love.
\in-VET-uhr-it\, adjective:
1. Firmly established by long persistence; deep-rooted; of long standing.
2. Fixed in habit by long persistence; confirmed; habitual.
I wake and watch the blue-hour’s
Crepuscular creatures drag limbs
Through the dim
To their towers.
[kri-puhs-kyuh-ler]
In lightning flames my quiddity;
My lightning grounds each day;
In lightning smokes Euripides;
His Bacchae swim my way.
[kwid-i-tee]
Etiolated Keats tarried from home;
Emaciated Keats buried in Rome.
[ee-tee-uh-leyt] verb,-lat·ed, -lat·ing.
Blake’s Influence
Alone with gnomic epigrams
I praise the tigers; shun the lambs.
\NOH-mik\ adjective
write with lightning 