Tuesday, October 1, 2019

12,157. CHARLEMAGNE

CHARLEMAGNE
A pearl within the glass.
I see the depths of another
illusion : running savage 
time along the edge of a
well-honed knifeblade.
That is Charles Magnus.
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Charlemagne, to you.
Charles the Great, it's 
been said : He eats the
meat with the gristle.
Right to the bone.
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'They shall call this Europe,
someday.' I heard him say 
that, in the shade of the 
Brinble tree. Ancient species,
now extinct; felled, all, and
mostly for the craft of 
building seafaring ships.

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