{"sf1_id":961815,"sf2_id":"4nAA6aNn","title":"Absolute","author":"Graowf","words":115,"posted_at":"2016-02-04T21:41:00.000Z","tags":["Dragon","Poem","Sword"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/961815-absolute","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/4nAA6aNn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/9b/21/9b2183bf-24b3-4cbf-8a5d-f65a8826f602","description":"#4 of Poems\n\nI sat down at lunch today to rework chapter 14 of a story I've been posting over on FA, but the rough draft was so bad I knew it needed a restart from scratch. So, instead, I whipped out this poem.","content":"Absolute  \n\n* * *\n  \nby Graowf  \n  \nRelentless, eternal, immutable beast,  \nnever invited, always arriving, to feast  \nand to dine and devour the sweet  \nand the bitter, the flower and meat,  \nto call forth the Dragon by name.  \n  \n\"Nettle will sting, Foxglove destory, Jimson will kill:  \nbeauty most sweet oft hides malevolent will.  \nThe Dragon was born a Creature of Light,  \nbut rained on the earth in his vanquishment flight,  \nhe adorns even death with glamor and charm.\"  \n  \nRiven, divided, sunderedly broken,  \nevery wherefore of everything, silent and spoken,  \nbereft of Deception and brought to the fore,  \nits Dragon is cast from window and door  \nby the beneficent beast that divides by the Sword.  \n  \nFebruary, 2016  \n  \n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poems","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/946000-the-ridiculum.json"}}