One True Tree: Cantos IX-XII
Narrative Verse
Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA
One True Tree: Cantos IX-XII
by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole
IX
Caught on the threshold, the monks drag him in,
Robbing the hunters of prey they have pinned;
Their jaws snap in vain, the door shuts them out,
Howls of confoundment escape from their snouts.
Down holy-arched halls the monks bear their ward,
All full knowin…