Tiger In The Abstract
( a 55)
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
~unknown, attr Mark Twain
Tiger walks a crumbling flow
stippled with blood, scratching scree.
Wind is crying in the dead-branched tree
tears of a fatal innocence
while the lamp of moon burns low.
Soft sharp paws in avalanches
are pacing out his pestilence;
rocks fall like raindrop lances
in fragrant inundations,
dry waves of murder-dances
upon the crushed carnations.
July 2025
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Images:Fifty Abstract Paintings..Three Lenins..Head Of Royal Bengal Tiger, 1963, © Salvador Dali Fair Use
Carnations, 1891, © Joaquin Sorolla Fair Use
