I.

She will be given

his veins in a knot; on a platter,

his crimson-apple heart.

Mad love's sacrifices.

II.

Her eyes:

closed books.

He tried to keep busy.

III.

Perhaps she was afraid of love.

She sat in a ruined palace

beautiful as a dove.

Its shadow-shapes might

have been anything.

He has sent her a note from a distance.