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Empress
and high priestess
veiled

not her
not me

She

but not Shekinah

Elizabeth
but not as You imagine her

black plumes and hooves


temperance and lover
both compromised
yet balanced

peace, tranquility, repose

but not through temperance

five spades
five graves

a kind of restraint
but not as you imagine her

The Faerie Queene