(long live) the king of imaginal courts

<sub>lord of fantastical means
who with dynastical genes
brewed in a stew
of the royalest blue
a potion that grew kings and queens

“whence springs kings and queens?
did they wing from Beijing?
some spurious thing, so it seems?”

“nay,” says the lord
“but by cosmic fjord
they sling from a wellspring of dreams”

king of imaginal courts
with a ring of phantasmical quartz
though not illusory
or hallucinatory
is visionary, of sorts

what effigies there
suspended in air
destined manifested on earth?

why, whatever the heir
has dressed and prepared
from high in his pie-sky-flung turret

queen of scholastical kind
keen for gymnastical mind
in logos she clothed
yarns for her betrothed
in bookplates their two fates were entwined

which author is this,
that seals with a kiss
not of wax, but more baffling to rend?

“why, it must be the lord,”
the lovers implored,
“yes, he without start, without end.

and how might we, too
concoct such a brew?”
said the nobles, “one able to last,

to fast cast off this ghastly die-cast cytoplast weve amassed,
the corporeal surpassed?”

so the lord by fanatical service, you see
took a sabbatical permanently
and forthwith his ghost
became the new host
saved them both from their terminal plea

yes, the lord by vestigial reports
stemmed from chemical retorts
endless lixirs to give
so that may long live
queen and king of imaginal courts!</sub>