Hens scampering in the village of Parma Appeasing the rooster's pride
An acre of corn nestling The soft serving Earth
Some light years away The explosion of a star Extends the reign of darkness
Kristina in her T-shirt Looking at her **** in the mirror Wondering how much firmer they get She is nineteen years old And wants to become an artist But her mother has other ideas
The clock chimes the midnight hour And Tom is sitting in the dark Debating whether to do it or not Whether to dispel the itch or wallow in it He is idyllic and knows nothing Of politics, nothing of religion And nothing of death
In the street corner Harlots talk about tricks Talk about positional preference And talk about cunning One day they are the masters Of their worlds and the next Objects of subjugation
A ****** of crows circle overhead The pitch of their cawing growing
The clergyman wearing a purple robe Pays tribute to ****** Mary He is positive that his moralizing sermon Would enlarge his drove of disciples His submission to the Cross Is double-edged: one about God's work And the other about mammon
An osprey swoops down And catches a trout
Silver and gold are bought and sold In the marketplace Asteroids surge through The incalculable Space Time effects and erases Prospects of understanding
Mason is an obscured poet He admires Rilke's philosophy of writing Even though he is well educated In aesthetics of language His own poetry verges on insanity He says: either mad or dead
The General brushes his mustache He is about to give a farewell speech To his subordinates He is not going to ignite them With bravery or his achievements Instead, he is going to stab their spirits What do they know These fancy pants of generalship
The lioness fails to make a **** Oh, but there is another prey
The Heart aches for peace For eternal release from the binds of Temporal tricks The Mind, whether a master or slave Miscalculates the essential needs And the Body, sanctuary of soul, Craves for food, ***, rest and breeding
Czeslaw Milosz would have been The President of the World Joseph Brodsky: His Secretary of Independence Robert Frost: His Secretary of Freedom William Butler Yeats: His Secretary of Peace Pablo Neruda: His Secretary of Pleasure Only if Fate had been kind enough.