The Fabulist (edit 3)

[Knot]

Hi TqB,
taking my name in whatsit? Hmm.


Given the title do you need to repeat 'fabulist' in L1? Also, given the poems origins this seems more a poem about Fabulists in general, rather than one in particular? What distinguishes this one from any other?
Also, aren't verses 2 and 3 covering a lot of the same ground? Also, the switch from 'the scarecrow/their' to 'your/you' is a bit jarring.
(Not convinced by 'ragged with', what might that look like?)

The Fabulist.

For the scarecrow believers
his words fill the sky.
They hang on his periods
wander the pauses in his breath

Between his supple wrist
and his unspoken name
worlds are made and unmade
burning cities in your brain.

jack-in-the-knife fables
turn in a groove of lies
where lunacy and rhyme
lay heretics in a row.

if you listen to his eyes
they tell you he's not joking.
for the fabulist wears a mask
ragged with laughter


Best, Knot


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