A silver pool

Chapter 36: MOCKERY

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The volume gathers short, lyrical poems that move between intimate confession and vivid, travel-tinted scenes, often using sea, desert, and carnival imagery to evoke longing and desire. Many pieces treat love, loss, and memory with devotional or elegiac tones, transforming personal feeling into music and visual metaphor. Occasional persona poems and translated voice-poems recall distant cultures and theatrical figures, while recurring motifs—stars, fires, pools, and painted streets—anchor the collection’s contemplative mood.

MOCKERY

I dreamed Love came with golden thong,

And bound me to his wrist,

Then swept me out on winds of flame,

Through space the sun had kissed.

Instead, Love came in jester’s garb,

Flaunting his cap and bells,

And led me to a far, strange tent,

Beside dead, desert wells.