Carolyn O'Connell
Rider of the Tower Block
Dropping down from a darkening eastern sky,
now iron blue in the summer evening light,
Othello, astride a stallion that could fly
bearing remnants of fire within a brown hide
that shone with suppressed speed while its
iron shod hooves lashed the road with every stride.
The Prince, oblivious to this alien place,
his eyes fixed to the west, seeks Desdomona
where she weeps by a god of mystic fire.
His wild silk shirt covers a torso that gleams
with oil sweet enough to taste. The golden
Cypriot moon hangs at his throat; a lost dream.
I watch him pass, separated by frozen glass
wanting him to reach and pull me high upon the beast,
a willing victim in this headlong dash
beyond thinly rising odours that blight
time trapped colour hanging above this modern
stygian tower, on, on, towards light.
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