Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up
In sea-coal satin. The flame-blue glances,
The wings gauzy as the membrane that the ashes
Draw over an old ember --as the mother
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Is this a picture of the poet as well? tell stories to the fire.
But best, dead, damned, to rock forever
Beside Hell's fireside- to see within the flames
He is so dark- he sees darkness even in a child's fairytale- he seems to me to be a suicide walking
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Is this a picture of the poet as well? tell stories to the fire. But best, dead, damned, to rock forever Beside Hell's fireside- to see within the flames He is so dark- he sees darkness even in a child's fairytale- he seems to me to be a suicide walking