Alienated Monkey (After Saul of Tarsis, Don Quixote, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dali, and Viviana y Merlín) On the road back to recovery, the Inquisitor sliced his own eye in two: monkey toppled from his horse. The scales fell from monkey’s eyes and a cloud of incense, blown on the wind, drifted in and out of his mind: he kicked out against the deadwood and the pricks. Black-skirted nightmares cursed and threatened. They turned into windmills and churned forcefully at his brain’s fragility. Their great canvas sails cast monkey to the ground, then returned and launched him to the stars. The lunatic moon was full and round; it rolled over the hill, like a cheese down Cheap Street. When black magic trapped him in the lunatic asylum, his monkey face shone out through the prison bars. At midnight, he howled like a lone wolf lost in his dreams.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:17:06 +0000