Ouroboros in Mid-July

Edmund Dulac, "A Loaf of Bread, illustration for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 1909
Edmund Dulac, “A Loaf of Bread,” illustration for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 1909

Long hot dunes of days
Vibrate, reverberate
Snaking in great peals
Of dusk & dawn.
—A song,
Some wine—you know
How these things go.

We smoke and smolder in beeswollen noons
Days half dreamed languish
Toward firefly twilights
Meteor nights
Skin-shed moon-sweat beds
And the coiling fire of another day.


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