Loose pages from time <br />collated and combined <br />to form a seal. ‘Fidelity’ <br /> <br />italicized, illumined <br />on the manuscript – <br />an idol or ideal <br /> <br />once thought immutable. <br />Priestess enfleshed <br />as traditor, she stumbles <br /> <br />on her many tentacled <br />equivocation – <br />recalls the ritual <br /> <br />rending of the veil. <br />No longer able to maintain <br />her former love’s sectarian claim <br /> <br />she riffles through the pages <br />of her life. A few words <br />underlined, her youth transcribed <br /> <br />on parchment; genial memories <br />transformed into mysteries – <br /> <br />a facile binding <br />of a former liberty.<br /><br />Malcolm Evison<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/her-book/
