when twas revealed that she'd trick'd us with
her magic spell, inflicted by the pool. 50
But now I see she laced her lies with fact
and that this gift the order gave to us
was not another trick to take control
of thee from far away to do a task,
but was a genuine of articles."
They turn toward the scene again when comes
a smaller man approaching from around
the building's side from the adjacent street,
reporting to the larger one: "Sir Head,
just down the other street there lies a man 60
with sharpen'd teeth and ragged clothing worn
around his body, which is still and cold,
surrounded by the stain of blood that's soak'd
into the dirt from leakage in his throat"
The Headman takes this in and doth reply:
"With sharpen'd teeth and ragged clothes to wear?
A cannibal invaded town by night!
But who was here to put the beast to rest,
I ask of ye, my villagers, last night?"
The townsfolk look from one another with 70
bemusement, shrugging shoulders, shaking heads
whilst Headman turns to lay his eyes upon
each one before he stops at sighting Spouse
and Pilgrim standing near, whereat he says:
"The two of ye may be a charm of luck,
who came to rest the night which these events
occurr'd ere these discoveries at dawn;
you hush'd your voices earlier you spoke,
and though mine hearing's not what once it was,
I heard ye mention magic waters pour'd 80
upon our lands, which may explain the life
now sprouting from the barren desert ground,
and though I'm not a superstitious man,
th'occurrence of this spire form'd of wood
to coincide with th'whispers that you shar'd
does well convincing me you play'd a part
in this enrichment of our settlement—
which now I hope, experimenting, we'll
impregnate with a wealth of crops to feed
our young and tow'ring wood to build us out— 90
but also do I think the two of ye
did play a part defending us by night
and further fertilizing th'earth with blood
of th'enemy subsisting on our flesh
who lives above our village in the caves."
YOU ARE READING
As Ever Like the Sun & Moon at War
PoetryA troubled Pilgrim sets upon a road in search by sun and storm of paradise; a vain Pariah's banish'd from his home to render justice by the moonlit night: two individuals who share a flesh, each unalike in methods and beliefs, yet fated consequence...
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