RIGHT TO REMAIN
espied you
waving your wand
glaring at the stars
determined
to tear them apart
whilst below
far below
ensconced in Hades
Eurydice can here
her husband’s love
beautifully
sung, closing in
there fellow shades
muster support
gather to
explain to her
the symbolic significance
of her
own mythology, deconstructing
this text, reading it
against the grain, wholly
from the liminal
perspective
of borders
and margins
Oh, if there were only pure
light down here not
perverse neon
enough raw
plain, uncomplicated energy
to carry her through
lift her
high above
dive like a swallow
into the arms
of Oedipus
where she can speak
with conviction of all
none
but she can
now explain
and there too
you, our celebrated astronomer
wondering
about the planets
all the planets
and whether
denuded of majesty,
stripped
of mystery, void
of so-called
music
of the spheres
they have a right to remain
poems 2 die for 