[
Hanging Fixture] [Epistle After Horace]
Tulip
lamp: six petals,
gold sea shells rimmed in black
hover above the bright glass globe,
blooming.
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Epistle After Horace
Plan a banquet.
Invite the sly bride
and the beggar.
Bathe yourself.
Pour mulled wine.
No excuses.
It is well past harvest?
Let your wife serve
winter fruit.
Your hospitality will shine
like polished tiles
or water.
May your guests recline
on linen.
Sit down, my friend.
Amuse them all.
Compute the volume of the sea.
Calibrate the sky.
Ignore the dark companion
by your side,
and when it's time
to tip the beggar, you must
offer him the bride.
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