Waves Of Vanishing Desire

Waves Of Vanishing Desire
© Surazeus
2026 06 13

When Phoebus follows river of his eyes 
that flow through broken window of his heart, 
he finds his body in the ocean house 
that floats on airplane wings of dragon eggs 
which nurture horse with honeysuckle wings 
who teaches him how to dig his own grave. 

Weary on waves of vanishing desire, 
Phoebus builds another bridge from sparrow bones 
that gives him strength of harpy butterflies 
to endure endless days of everywhere 
because the past returns in loops of laughter 
where river of his eyes flows to the sea. 

Heart bruised by shadows of the faceless dead, 
Phoebus lies on grass while the clock rewires 
how his sponge brain perceives eternal light 
that glows from skin of Columbine when she strips 
mask of her happiness to bare her soul 
studded with milk-white stars of unmarred faith. 

Concluding with sly grin of knowingness, 
Columbine asks the charlatan to prove 
she has no right to live in paradise, 
but he sells Bibles to the gullible 
who cheer when Harlequin erases words 
to steal the falling star of honesty. 

Amused at clashing cymbals of respect, 
Columbine rescues the blind hanging man 
who sells her memories of their love trysts 
to kind sorcerers from Bohemia 
who ask Phoebus to reign as their new king 
while he rocks his daughter in gentle arms. 

When Harlequin returns from Kingdom Come 
and asks bold Columbine to marry him, 
Phoebus interferes with their fake romance, 
intending to repair the garden path 
where Melancholy dances with Disdain 
as if they are new deities we love. 

Clotilde points to angels in the sky 
whose bodies fall as snowflakes on the Earth, 
so Phoebus makes small snowman on his lawn 
with twisted tree branches as devil horns 
while children gather coins from lake-shore mud 
stamped with cute scene of Bacchus and his pards. 

While she plays tambourine with broken heart 
beneath the weeping bells of Notre Dame, 
Phoebus gives Columbine peach juice to drink 
so she teaches Clotilde how to paint 
faces of ghosts who descend from the sky 
with metallic wings of terrified birds.