Mnemosyne: godmother of Cicero

"memoria, intellegencia, providentia"

stretch me back, a rubber band
tense, remembering past power

let me see splendor of is
and discern ravelling pattern
of future destiny unwinding from me

"quod ab inertibus dicitur"

"as the unskilled assert"
that knowledge is meaningless
a bore for the boring to busy themselves
I would revert to the opposing dissertation
that ignorence is ignomious
dull for the dullards to drown themselves

"imaginis autem agentibus acribus, insignitis,
quae occurrere celeriterque percutere animum possint"

manticore coloured a thousand hues of red
jaws agape, dripping electric blue acid saliva
standing at the pinnacle of a pyramid
master of a hunded steps

unicorn standing on one leg, on the edge of a burgundy cliff
below a purple sea crashes with lightning bolt waves
hundreds of swallows dance infinity symbols
in the liminal space between earth and sea

one eyed wolf, laying in a place where three roads meet
azure eyed, watchful, guardian of the triple path
above the mangy canine the moon ripples, yellow-hued

Cicero! Cicero! Cicero!