The bronze-scorched mud knobbed unhinged sculpture grows
Cinderella down to root knots, ground is grubbed
chapped hats of acorns hit porticoes before snows
honeybees cake their hives closed and wax hubbed
humiliation hardens as color dapples
swelling seed-commas split beneath the frost
piety’s ignored until next year’s apples
night sky is grape-leafed, blackberry sauced
ineffable brutes grow cold to the pinnacle
rhetorical dross groundswells legislations
the long-legged wind tramples our spectacle
rains mock each leaf into pickled munitions
rocks are nothing but hermitages sent by the moon
prescient hardness sets its chin to the ground
hankering for battle, totalitarianism thrives by noon
each soldered twig unloomed, unraveled, uncrowned
we have severed ties to reason’s substantial contents
in the muddle it’s not the empowerment you had
democracy dies bewildered blind with miscontents
unhinged, unconcerned to find the hanging chad
we’re scissored down to our primary chaos all
paralogisms who dwell in a dream that justifies our fall.
Nov 11, 2017
Nov 11, 2017 at 12:15 PM UTC
The bronze-scorched mud knobbed unhinged sculpture grows
Cinderella down to root knots, ground is grubbed
chapped hats of acorns hit porticoes before snows
honeybees cake their hives closed and wax hubbed
humiliation hardens as color dapples
swelling seed-commas split beneath the frost
piety’s ignored until next year’s apples
night sky is grape-leafed, blackberry sauced
ineffable brutes grow cold to the pinnacle
rhetorical dross groundswells legislations
the long-legged wind tramples our spectacle
rains mock each leaf into pickled munitions
rocks are nothing but hermitages sent by the moon
prescient hardness sets its chin to the ground
hankering for battle, totalitarianism thrives by noon
each soldered twig unloomed, unraveled, uncrowned
we have severed ties to reason’s substantial contents
in the muddle it’s not the empowerment you had
democracy dies bewildered blind with miscontents
unhinged, unconcerned to find the hanging chad
we’re scissored down to our primary chaos all
paralogisms who dwell in a dream that justifies our fall.
©marywinslow2017
