La Belle Dame
About to lose my head,
I move toward you like
Madame la Guillotine
Awaiting – en attendant –
one more aristo;
Hungry
to devour
a dynasty,
You lure my tumbril
passion past
derision,
pose your majesty
against the skyline,
beckoning like death’s strange semaphore,
Like Fate.
Lain with you now,
The crowd forgotten – oubliant la foule –
I hear only the lullaby of
my own heart
and faint, – as though afar – the click of needles.