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Dream tapestries

Chapter 34: SONG
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A collection of lyrical poems that weave dreamlike imagery with everyday and mythic scenes. The poems move between enchanted woods, haunted gardens, village interiors and symbolic tableaux, using vivid sensory language—moonlight, apples, flowers, purple pall—to examine longing, loss, desire, and memory. Some pieces adopt songlike forms and short lyric units; others are narrative sketches evoking funerary rites, domestic rituals, and moments of feminine reflection. Recurrent motifs of time, mourning, and the uncanny create a tapestry of mood shifts from playful to elegiac, inviting readers to linger in symbolic moments rather than in continuous narrative.

SONG

DEW ...
Delicate lanterns, star-kindled anew,
And a sword of silver
Brave, shining and still ...
With roses—deep roses of crimson—
And, sheathing the blade,
Greek hyacinths blue.
Ah ... the treasures, the symbols, we laid
In the deep cold mould on the hill
With the body of you!...
But over the mould there flew
Something wingéd that earth could not hold—
You!...