Forgotten Ground Regained
Low-Born Emperor
Lacking in weight, · he wields masses,their roar and flash, · fury and drive,and seething casters · of cargoes of firearcwise across · the emptied land.Those ragings tethered, · he takes the fieldin cleats and helm, · or counts his triumphswhere charts tally, · or chattering drills,inroads on enemies. · But this awesome forcewith the toothy, stuttering · stich-halving nameis blind and deaf, · bodiless, silent,abiding in murk, · elemental, unseen,driving half the world · with his heedless stir,an arch power spawned · in a seedy room.
Copyright © Donald Mace Williams, 2004
First published in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 2, Spring 2024.
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