malfeasance
as she spoke so her digraphic sounds fell upon the soil
and in its spoil they accite the nether earth
to rouse their flawless insight in the way that witches will
liquid, labial, guttural
the floor did answer and the walls
shook from them honey bees
and worms and termites centipedes
and fellow insects all rushed from their
bore holes and in a mass upon the ground
that shaped much like a question
asked her of her will
her thoughts from darkest walls reverberate
and creatures of the night may scream like injured vixen
for malfeasance and diablerie are among her combatants
and trickery her mask
for in her palm men are blind and in her thrall
they trow themselves to murder of morality
with this ring she will bind them
and she threw her image
upon the ground
a circle forming
thus the insects bore her shape
as if they bore no more than leafs across a carpet forest
and in her secret place they laid her down
she wove her shape anew
and all a trembled in her present form
for in the demons of their mind
she was so beautiful
and as fantastic light burns its refracted love
upon our submissive orbs
its gyre power dove into our minds
so we loved her too
for beauty is a compelling mistress
dressed in hedonisms superb form
belies its motive and its motion
by which its power is enslaved
and hides its true deceit