5.1

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
Why not bend its feet and coax them
Into ambulacral grooves?
Before I falter
Into five again behold my digits
Straining toward correlatives:
Needle orb, castrated asterisk,
Survivor. There’s no right way to rive
These thoughts, these urchins.

5.2

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
why not bend its feet and mold them
into ambulacral grooves?
Before I fall back
into five again regard these digits
stretching toward correlatives:
pinny orb, castrated asterisk,
relic. There’s no right way to rive
such thoughts, such urchins.

5.3

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
why not bend its feet and mold them
into ambulacral grooves.
Before I resort
to five again, regard these digits
groping toward correlatives:
Hell Priest, castrated asterisk,
relic. What’s the right way to rive
such thoughts, such urchins?

5.4

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
why not bend its feet and mold them
into ambulacral grooves.
Before I relapse
into five again, behold these digits
grasping correlatives:
Hell Priest, eunuch asterisk,
relic. Tell me the right way to rive
thoughts, urchins.

5.5

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
why not bend its feet and mold them
into ambulacral grooves.
Before I relapse
into five again, these digits
grasp correlatives:
eunuch asterisk, Hell Priest,
relic. The right way to rive
urchin thoughts.

5.6

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
why not bend its feet and mold them
into ambulacral grooves.
Before I relapse
into five again, these digits
poke correlatives:
five-membered asterisk, Hell Priest,
Uranus’s relics. The right to rive
thurchins.

5.7

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
why not bend its feet and mold them
into ambulacral grooves.
Before I relapse
into five again, these digits
poke correlatives:
five-pronged asterisk, Hell Priest,
Saturn’s pride. The right to rive
thur chins.

5.8

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
why not bend its feet and mold them
into ambulacral grooves.
Before I relapse
into five again, these digits
poke correlatives:
five-pronged asterisk, Hell Priest,
Saturn’s trophies. The right to rive
through chins.

5.9

Instead of breaking the pentameter,
why not bend its feet and mold them
into ambulacral grooves.
Before I relapse
into five again, these digits
poke correlatives:
five-pronged asterisk, Hell Priest,
Saturn’s trophies. The right to rive
chins.