King Previous
conquered memory
and divided the spoils
between his fifteen
children. Each dukedom
spanned a tense series
of minutes in the hour
long life that King
Previous once
inhabited. Duke
number one waged
restoration on the
farces that appeared
on the borders of the
land that was begotten
without that elder hint
of primogeniture.
Resentment and
languor, anger and
danger. Fragile
daggers, thrown
and blown from the
boundary trees to the
anterior bees. There was
once a happy time and
it was faded and sad
by the time it passed
on to the next
descendants.
Roman Ryan 