Beyond the Crowned and the Crooked

Someplace between the Memoirs of Cleopatra

and the Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette;

between Fates and Furies,

War and Peace, and

High Treason;

between the Devil’s Brood of

Queen Margot and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Someplace In A Dark Wood Wandering

you discover the Grass Crown

which upon your head you place

and see the Naked and the Dead,

that Leonardo’s Swans are translucent,

and that times are not as discordant as those of

the First Elizabeth.

For those marred by the

Fingerprints of the Gods are exposed

and few are found to have

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe.