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| Orpheus and the Bacchantes (Gregorio Lazzarini, circa 1710, oil on canvas) Photo from https://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/gregorio_lazzarini_-_orpheus_and_the_bacchantes_-_wga12527.jpg |
Orpheus
Louise Vincent B. Amante
Melancholy
fingers
plucking
the chords
of your lyre.
Dusk beginning to end.
"I've been up all night
Thinking of the hill
We used to climb..."
Drinking
your tears,
the strings
now
b
r
o
k
e
n.
It was taken
as a signal
by the Bacchanals
to pluck out
your heartstrings.
22 March 2017
Quezon City
