Xerxes' Xyst

Xenophobic xylophonists

xerox Xerxes xysters.

Xavier xeroxes

Xerxes xerophytes.

Xenial xylotomists

x-ray xylem xylose,

xerox Xerxes xanthin, xanthein, xanthosiderite.

Xerarch xylographers

Xerxes' xyst xeriscape:

xeroxed xerophytes,

xyris, xenoblasts,

xenomorphic xanthophylls,

xebecs xylographs,

xenoliths, xoanon, xiphodon xenografts.

Xylophonic xenophiles

xerox xystus xylographs,

x-ray Xerxes' xeric

xanthophyllous xerophytes.

Xylocarps x-out xenophobic xenopu.

Xavier's xystus xenodiagnosis:

Xerxes' xyst's xerographic Xanadu.

Author's note: I have decided to add a translation to go with this poem, since although the words are all in English dictionaries, it's really mostly Greek. I may have been a little loose with some of the translations, and there is more than a touch of nonsense. Thanks for reading!

The Portico of a Person Named Xerxes

Copied Woodcut of Paradise

Xylophone players afraid of the foreign

copy bone scrapers to Xerxes.

Xavier electro-statically prints

dry-loving plants for Xerxes.

Genial guests, wood preppers for microscopes,

take pictures of sugars in plants,

copy insoluble and soluble yellow from flowers, and golden-brown clay to Xerxes.

Woodcut printers from very dry places

'scape Xerxes' arcade to avoid irrigation:

those dry-loving plants electro-statically made;

wine-yellow flowers; crystals formed by compression;

strangely formed yellow from leaves in the fall;

woodcuts of sailing ships, three-masted, tall;

rock within rock; ancient Greek art; grafts of giraffes on beasts that are not.

With tones of xylophones, friends of the foreign

copy prints of promenades,

look in Xerxes' grown-in-the-barren

yellowish plants from a very dry place.

Coconuts conk out foreign-fearing, clawed frogs.

Xavier's garden-walk parasitic-diagnosis:

Xerxes' portico's a copied paradise.