Christmas, 2020
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"Madonna of the Snows?"
– Gautier, 'Symphony in White Major"
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woven snow threads shroud
symphonic ivory pepperd ground
pon ebony under bony lace
with powderd pale dusted round
pock skin frosty blanch of face
scumbled chalky nacreous virginal
alkaline earth visage burnishd at wax
or spider-scatterd smock gleams surgical
in bleach linen strewn of spike arm tacks
by black trunks scratched the slanted scars
crost wan as birth sweat brow
as crystal salt the star ô the star
gainst tar spill or the cross
stitch of pasty powder chills
baby under milky way embossed
in shattered frigid lily waxen thatch mask
glassy thrice wise gnostic gift pack ice
cadaver writhe with ants on veil linen
paralysed angel indolent in child
birthing slain to
white utter snow draind
-Olchar Lindsann
Published in Otoliths, No. 61, May 2021.
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