| SORCEROUS SIGNALS |
| Written by Deborah Walker / Artwork by Lee Kuruganti |
| Queen of the Claw |
The dragon’s claw arches over the King’s throne.
This antiquated authority, from dynasty past.
As a child, Armondi longed to touch the claw,
embrace the long-gone, lost-long,
vanquished rulers of the land.
Her brothers were indifferent to the lure of ancient times.
They played their wild games:
screaming, joyous, scrabbling games
of honour, until Mother ushered them
from the throne room, and from Father’s encouragements.
Now, two decades and two civil wars hence,
Armondi sits below the arch claw.
She knows it now,
plaster and guilt
for the dead,
whose place has been usurped.
Their games of honour lost-long.
This antiquated authority, from dynasty past.
As a child, Armondi longed to touch the claw,
embrace the long-gone, lost-long,
vanquished rulers of the land.
Her brothers were indifferent to the lure of ancient times.
They played their wild games:
screaming, joyous, scrabbling games
of honour, until Mother ushered them
from the throne room, and from Father’s encouragements.
Now, two decades and two civil wars hence,
Armondi sits below the arch claw.
She knows it now,
plaster and guilt
for the dead,
whose place has been usurped.
Their games of honour lost-long.
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Deborah Walker loves dreamy, dark poetry. Her heroes are Christina Rossetti and Jacqueline West. Find
Deborah’s poems in Star*Line, BULL SPEC, Dreams and Nightmares and The Lorelei Signal.
Deborah’s poems in Star*Line, BULL SPEC, Dreams and Nightmares and The Lorelei Signal.