Revised

Mouth of cave

where looters raid

 

slope of philosophers

took a bath –

 

there just where

fire slings ancient flood

 

following dots

nostalgic for blood.

 

Lures at lengths

pur dur sur and stripe.

 

Inscrutable

nonrefundable

irreputable.

 

Down the down stairs

smugglers notch

& to your saturnine right.

 

October reprisals

the heal and yoke

 

hand and sound –

go succumb to air!

 

Bottom graces

with a sudden cry out

 

sweet and measured – ?

my animals share.