half-dragon
Ritos órficos | Orphic Rites
Solo en inglés — Only in English
I
whenever I start dance-walking through the room
and you decide to limp in,
still yet, or almost already, fully surrounded by shadows,
asking but not taking,
I pity you not
and wonder
how do you miss the mirror but not the reflection?
II
you see through all this,
coward,
but, again, you don’t take the fire nor kill the beast
—human, lion, bird or half-dragon—
and I know that at all times,
in front of your eyes in mist,
Apollodorus’ vision wires,
and forward,
oh yes, forward,
behind some kind of bars, sublime,
you hunch, you kneel, you follow