sitwell—dust

(who) came from the tomb of the three furies... and taught the minotaur dark, ... new ways to kill ... who knows which dust is dives, which black dust is lazarus, changed into garden loam ... who knows which dust is silence, and which thunder ... who knows the history of silence, or of thunder ... and i, whose heart is formed of the dust of the three furies... ate my heart, the flesh of the wakeful nightingale... when eastern light ripens the precious dew ...

excerpts from edith sitwell song of the dust.