JUMPING JACK - Keith Howden - Bog

Be my servant
Soul Gnome in your salamander planet,
be Jack the Lad, be Jack in the Green,
be Jumping Jack in a quicksilver cosmos
of arsenic, ammonia and brimstone. Be my
necrotic juggler, conjure your waxy and
poisonous valency to shape the warlock light
the simple fear as the unfostered souls
of stillborn children lost between
Heaven's bulb and the Inferno's flame.
PP