Canto XV

November

It has been a five-month tango

I have finally untangled

Out of this tangle that has kept me gagged.

Too drained from the game

I ask for hiatus.

I’m suffocating

Out of moves in this bondage

If I stay

I will faint

Lose my mind.

For now

I choose to fly away

From our nest

That I forlornly tried to build

.

I will be back

More wise

More equipped to plume

A nest of Madame Legras petals.