Elbowroom

I.

Is ribcage or
romantic love
the heart’s true prison?

II.

Psyche never may
slough off
this mortal form

But her obsessive gaoler
Cupid, too
twists heart-string fetters; then

III.

is ribcage or
romantic love
the heart’s true prison?

IV.

First Adam
shakes those bony bars
but cannot win

Now his delinquent inmate
[Passion!]
stokes her greenwood fire—So

V.

is ribcage or
romantic love
the heart’s true prison?