Can Black Birds Fly in Moonlight?

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Castle, castle—I cannot repeat

The last motion.

Flutter, Black raven—you cannot

Sing me now.

Can the truest of ways lie in the Gate

Of Dido, or yours?

Instead, pause

The eternal return.

Go—go back, before the beginning,

Above edge, prior to pause, the vampire

Castle, castle—how did I see it?

Her womb unfurls

Again, within me,

Impure elements.

No one opened the scroll,

So fly, fly faster—Black raven, see

The deep

There, the watery wall—

See Venus turning, 

Rolling Sky.

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