A Trojan verse challenges me to write,

bare. He dictates:

get into me
and hide in the vast of my dark,
and drink of the wine of my shrine

Write whatever you like-
wear my enclosure for your caged closure.

Write it all ;;;
even after your pen bleeds

but beware:

I will bind you with the fierce branding iron
like the deep inner calling of a psalm

forgetting the light, you will decode the dark.


write whatever you feel
I'm not responsible
for what you will find..."