a quiet story
before the locked doors or
three way mirrors
a spider whispers
a lesson from a devil on hot
pale scales pipe high virginal
ballads in black smoke broken
by smiling Poussin
bells plunge down towers
sweetening prisons with
spiders clenched recitals
and 24 carat bourbon
Mar 22, 2012
Mar 22, 2012 at 12:49 AM UTC
a quiet story
before the locked doors or
three way mirrors
a spider whispers
a lesson from a devil on hot
pale scales pipe high virginal
ballads in black smoke broken
by smiling Poussin
bells plunge down towers
sweetening prisons with
spiders clenched recitals
and 24 carat bourbon
Nicholas Poussin was French neoclassic painter.
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