Amanda Earl

Melancholy, a guided remix

melancholy is a glowing firefly map
the red tragic poetry of a cube,
fungi, ash, invertebrate

in eighteenth-century France,
traditional melancholy fell
into two groups:
female glow worms and pastries
from bioluminescence to porcelain

melancholy is firelicked china
marine woven
hot vinegar in the best teas
a sealed pot
50% bone and green crust
as cairns are to each other

in some animals, melancholy
was originally ourselves
sugar cubes tired of the scent of lemon

melancholy is a fracas of ferns
after the peel
acetic acid and want
a demi cube scraped off

the sun goes copper with
melancholy

melancholy is ash, the bone
of the Middle Ages,
a wooden block unto itself

melancholy in a warped mirror
that maps us close enough
to fly

is memories where we are
the other symmetries

in a household cellar
melancholy corresponds to
the verdigris of blame

melancholy is a farce of
medieval architecture
attach an obsessive love
to the pot

melancholy was manufactured
in dung, refers to angels