Aurora Magazine 2017

covered in the ivy vine - and learn the dances, learn the verses and think it wise to be called “mine.” But claimed you’ll be, a wearied form or, maddened, exiled by your zeal. For those who chose to brave the storm should be prepared for such ordeal. Or think it wise to think me only covetous of mystic rite. A maenad mad and acting coldly, inventing fear and baneful blight. O, bear the deer upon your thigh, pour the wine to fill your bowl and pull the shutter from your eyes and pray the madness makes you whole.

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