Neptune of Dolores – Matilda Z.H
January 28, 2026
Neptune of Dolores
Sweet Dolores
fell asleep under a
withered
willow tree
Fainting image of a man
Black woolen coat wrapped a trembling heart in November rain
He was once
surrounded by airy foams
A heart
carved
i n h o l l o w
Test of Neptune
a catcher
an illusion
A dream of Neptune
Flooding ocean in New Year’s Eve thunderstorm
Teenage illusion in a chemical flame
Enchanted
Dis
oRien t e d
Intrigued
Trapped asleep under a willow tree
Sweet Dolores
wake up under a
withered
willow tree
Pastel pigments
Moon tears in her pockets
Tender voice of Apollo
Fair maiden sailed from afar
Disillusioned disenchanted
Pompous Pretentious Pale fragments
Test of Neptune
Perishes in the Astro belt
Everlasting Snowfall in 1000 Summer Lanterns
Black cat
❆
sleeping on the doctor’s book ❆
s
h
e
l
f
❆
❆
A cursed year an over lighted street
A long winter with cats oversleeps
❆ everlasting snowfall
A thousand lanterns
floating
in
a girl’s dream
Unknown and Unaware
Walking under a maple tree
❆
❆
What happened to you
And where are you headed
❆
An everlasting dream in an everlasting
s ❆
❆ n
o ❆
w ❆
❆
Life is mere foam
In a ceramic
❆ bathtub
I took a bath
covered in wounds and scars
This everlasting snow in everlasting winter
Snow fell
❆
❆
❆
Turning and turning into edelweiss petals
Broken glass broken flowers
Fragments of snow embracing her wounds
❆
❆
The black cat woke up
He went to a tea party then went back to
the doctor’s arm
❆
❆ One day you will stop bleeding stop crying
Under the maple tree
Smiling the faerie
We are all waiting for you
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❆
English Class in the Memory Café of Mysterious Way of Youth
Youth—
Youth——
Youth———
HAS a —
HAS a ——
HAS a ———
Type-a Type-a Type-a-of Mystery
When you were a child grandpa put you in English class
Pick a name
Mister Jack’s children has
the coolest names
He said you have the nicest loveliest voice
i y ɨ ʉ ɰ u
Palatals
are not
bananas
Consonants take you [ʧ] [ʤ] cross———— continents
aspirated unaspirated
[p] [m]
[b] [t]
[d] [n]
[k] [g] [ŋ] [ʧ] [ʤ]
[v]
[θ]
[ɣ]
[h]
[f]
[ð] [s] [z] [ʃ]
[ʒ] [x]
Telling friends
Your dislike of rare steaks
Drinking whisky sour
collecting glasses ceramic mugs pieces of past
Abandoning
F o r g e t t i n g
WOrDs Synt–Ax G r a m m a r
O f
how to talk to your mother your father her cousins his cousins
Youth—
Youth——
Youth———
HAS a —
HAS a ——
HAS a ———
Way-of Way-of Way-of Memorying
Way-of Way-of Way-of Forgetting
Uncertain time across the sea
Reading W.B. Yeats-s horoscope
How do you find a psychic
to channel
Mr. Yeats
Reading W.B. Yeats
His face his voices his words
This is the refuge you chose
Matilda Z.H is a poet, photographer, and law student.