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Daedalus Fragments

from First Bank on the River by Robert George Saull

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An imagined dream of Daedalus.

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What should I create, Mnemosyne?
Where should I be, lovely mezzanine?
All for the lion's share.
All for the lion's share.

I build machinery to Christ the globe.
I am a man of science, an acrophobe.
How can my son be dead,
With wings swung from swollen lead?

Commensurate the flame and wringing iron,
The river flows the bowl from whence the goats divine.
All for the lion's share.
What's the name of all the lion's share?

These halls are stuffed with hoplites,
All swilling wine from lungs,
Braying at the fountain,
A ladder full of rungs.

Apollo, preserve my senses,
The wrenches of my will.
The hoisting is the climbing,
The window has no sill.

I still must chip the Cypress,
And sand the softened shape.
In nature comes the truthing,
I let the world escape,

Like my son escaped me,
Like technē did despise,
Must I be also learning?
Must I be also wise?
Must I forgo the whys?

What should I create, Mnemosyne?
Where should I be, right now?
Where should I be, right now?

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from First Bank on the River, released August 22, 2021

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