The Troll Queen's Bride
Death is not mighty, Death is a humble widower
who sits weeping by a lighthouse window, polishing brass
for the seagulls, ash more bread than fireplace, eating
the leftover cheese that has hardened and become dogfood.
Death is not loud, Death speaks only the tongue of toads.
He is a toad, he crouches in the small places, soaking up rain.
Rough skin poison, brown and dun and wood, wet and wanting.
Give him some weeds, he is happy, give him a kingdom, he cries.
Death my comfort, Death my confidant, Death my escort.
We ramble over the mountains, making strange bedfellows
at inn beyond the wood beyond the worlds, in Siduri's bar
Sikat na Kabanata