RED MUSE POEMS  

When love perishes from the world 
the earth swells in blood 
and finds every poisoned root 
spiralling  out of lust, vengeance, 
greed and hate; 
and fills every habitable mass 
with an equal share; 
until the nature of things reverses 
is confused, chopped, decimated, 
thwarted; 
and thrown like angry sticks to the wind