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the gods of rook and man (Free verse) by richa
somewhere, in the heaven of a heaven
and typing; the completed works
of robert browning
am I and this sight; 'a man in a labyrinth
-- of walls, pale green on a dominant grey'.
The sleight wind shaken clean of its grits,
having shaped the stone walls, has died
and, should the flat door of the skies
come down to rest on these walls
it would seal like the lid on a jam jar.
The man in the labyrinth weighs poles
in half steps north or south, he flusters
like a flare, on a busy ocean of angles.
'The rook does not flinch from its grip
on the sycamore stripped, of leaves
and flanked by two blades of the sun.'
says the god of all rooks, sat at a table
playing chess with the god of all men.
in moves they argue a thousand paths.
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