here Harold
errant under sail

stitched hawk
frets his wrist

his hounds plod
tabby cloth

and here
the margin fables

crane and wolf
broken oath

these drag ships
to sea

these bend bows
in anger

horses pitch
falter in heaps

along the border
bodies stripped

here king
Harold is killed

arrow to eye
sulphur fletched

here a house
is burned

in buff and
dull gold






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