Crab-Angel + 

An atomic sprite + 

perched on a polished + 

monster-stallion + 

reigns over RinglingвАЩs + 

revolving + 

trinity + 

of circus attractions + 

Something the contour + 

of a captured crab + 

waving its useless pearly claws + 

From a squat body + 

pygmy arms + 

and bow legs + 

with their baroque calves + 

curve in a bi-circular attitude + 

to a ballerinaвАЩs exstacy + 

An effigy of Christmas Eves + 

smile-cast among chrysanthemum curls + 

it seems a sugar angel + 

while from a rose flecked ruff of gauze + 

its manly legs + 

stamp + 

on the vast rump of the horse + 

An iridescent speck + 

dripped from a rainbow + 

onto an ebony cloud + 

Crab-Angel + 

I christen you + 

minnikin of masquerade sex + 

Helen of Lilliput? + 

Hercules in a powder puff? + 

вАЬHad you been born + 

in regions of the Unicorn + 

To balance on his ivory horn + 

perhapsвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАЭ + 

вАЬPer Bacco! + 

вАЩTis an idiot dwarf + 

hooked to a wire to make him jumpвАЭ + 

Automaton bare-back rider + 

the circus-master + 

jerks + 

your invisible pendulence + 

from an over-head pulley + 

to your illusory + 

leaps in up-a-loft + 

signs + 

the horse + 

racing the orchestra + 

in rushing show + 

throw + 

his whimsy wire-hung dominator + 

to dart + 

through circus skies of arc-lit dust + 

Crab-Angel + 

like a swimming star + 

clutching the tail end of the Chimera + 

An aerial acrobat + 

floats on the coiling lightning + 

of the whirligig + 

lifts + 

to the elated symmetry of FlightвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФвБ†вАКвБ†вАФ + 

A startled rose + 

whirls in the chaos of the hoofs + 

The jeering jangling + 

jazz + 

crashes to silence + 

The dwarfвБ†вАФ + 

subsides like an ironic sigh + 

to the soft earth + 

and ploughs + 

his bow-legged way + 

laboriously + 

towards the exit + 

waving a yellow farewell with his perruque + 