In Alphabetical Order

A, dense and fuzzy, for amnesia. B for a tipsy bateau that navigates the night beneath a moon in C, climbing enigma. D for distended deserts and E from which the Euphrates flows. Fatalistic F of an agonizing infinity and the G of sonorous darkness, like a silver hook grabbing your gullet. H in its abstraction of hermetic absence. Column constructed by I, J’s supporting staff. The dance of the deceased that makes K: kyrie eleison, and an L forged of lips and liquid night. M’s crown (and that nereid N which a dolphin, leaping over, transformed to an N). O’s ring of fire a trained tiger jumps through to surprise. Butterflies that die in P’s net. The smoking face of Q. R that is the root of all roses. S for the serpent that slithers through all our paradises. T for the twinkling twilight and U like an urn of dark-honey moon in our mouth. Those siamese U’s in Shakespeare’s signature. X for mystery and arithmetic. Y (which can describe our link to abstract and luminous Greece), able to link lavender and night, Camelot and snow. Z for an unreachable zenith.