musée mia burrus

A Slender Villanelle for a Bell

shrine to the typewriter
 
 and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
 
 
 the bell’s clear ring
 sweet purification
 for you it sings
  
 the flowering
 of earthly creation’s
 a bell’s pure ring
  
 and signalling
 our deep veneration
 how true it sings
  
 far echoing
 long reverberation
 the bell’s deep ring
  
 when everything’s
 hell fire and damnation
 so too it sings
  
 and wisdom brings
 a grave revelation
 the bell’s clear ring-
 for you it sings
  
  
  
 mia burrus
 feb 2017