Orion's whelp-rainbow low-then spiteful white-
Christ's nearest herald save one-a true false dawn-
ruby fights sapphire-emerald bickers with amethyst-
evil augury-inauspicious fire shining like copper-
ancient ruddy light cuts diamond miasma to fallen pearl-
two arrows' radial pace converge into each other
as opposing waters rise, meet, commingle and move on-
a dark pup warps her proper curve-a cow asleep
in a slow boat foretells the heliacal rising of a thirsty
jackal-headed bird-inundation's urns up-turned to quench
a dry country-sheiks will seek what the Dogon knew
until heaven's sweat denies the lone white dwarf's duplicity-
fugitive leader-scourge of days canicular-turncoat red-
a gift for different eyes-giant diminished before its time-