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First Line: The eternal is sustained by serial metamorphosis
Last Line: Kidnap into fantasia
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.


The Eternal is sustained by serial metamorphosis,
even so Beauty is
metamorphosis surprises!
Low in shadow
of the El's
arboreal iron
some aerial, unbeknown
eerie-form
of dual mobility,
having long wing, an unbelievable
imp-fly
soars
trailing
a horizonal gauze;
trudges, urges,
crouches;
its knees' apexes, a roach's.
Humanly sized
a magnified imago
towing in twofold progress
nameless nostalgia through slush,
enigma among gloom.
As always, has a wisp of whiteness loveliness
to lift the eyelids;
to whisper of subvisual resources
in the uncolor of the unknown.
Across indefinite curbstones
focus
this creature of fictitious
faery,
this eccentric of traffic:
after all
the illicit insect
is only
a little girl-
-a long white muslin curtain,
tied to her pull-over,
afloat from her,
she pilots an ideal load
taking a heavy child
for a ride
in a fragile,
stalling
doll's perambulator.
The dilating wing
billows from her shoulders
the wondering of windows,
mildews, as the soul does,
penury
with dream.
Ponder this
metamorphosis:
Infancy's
kidnap into Fantasia.






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