Chirpy Dirges

Swanky (An Exercise In Auto-Ekphrasis)

A Valentine's of swans, moonless river:
2 Ls in Vivaldi font ported to snowblindness
(hierotippexed), who glid down 
the wrong discipline, along the Stygian
stave of the  Atonality headlning
after the Tracheotomy of the Spheres.

A Valentine's of swans, moonless river:
parabolic break action of snowman 
shotguns, embonpoint tarred & cotton-
wooled, fires white flags. Flags up, starkly 
conveyed upon black freshwater,  baggage
scanner at the Valley of the Shadow of Death.

A Valentine's of swans, moonless river:
the periscopes of ghost gnomes' U-boats 
taking a gander (no geestimates!) at blackbrush
algae ops of Erebian Naiads. Or Arabian Night 
Fever: anaemic Egyptians' one dancemove 
cobraing from winged bicep, tricep breast.

A Valentine's of swans, moonless river:
aristocratic mullets scalped & mobsurfing
a revolutionary river of le grand non lavage.
O cob & pen powercouple are giraffe
dove ducks, to the Sovereign as prosaic
as pigeons are to oiks of Eros like me & my bird.