Didascalic
Persephone’s abode
summer and spring
this thicket
the beetle’s kingdom and
locust’s schoolyard
beasts of the microcosm and
a dividing line, painter’s
brush stroke
limiting the underworld
where the queen slumbers for
six months, a line
between two heartbeats
an alive chthonian body
a corpse on the other side and
the pond’s role: to keep
guard of lines invisible
yet distinct and separating
one death from the next
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