[Kay Syrah]

Please release me.

Protocol defends
the status configuration
of the well bred
and the presentation
of the proper obediences
with the angle of the bent knee
and the tilt of the chin
signifying certainty
of pertinence
Raleigh's flourish defined
the essence of the beau geste
and Elizabeth remembered him
in the tower, no doubt
bunny dipping has
a long and honourable
pedigree, poetry
is an orphan.

[Kay Syrah]

All reeds begin their song
in the rush of dark equations

Desire empties thought of substance
stalking the empirical with the lyrical

Ecstatic iterations are more or less
regardless of the aftermath

Now gifted with mystic certainty
progressions chart the disposessed.