So many lonely men:
On that twisting, redundant coil
The “y”
That still receives no answer
Enjambment coiling round
The hollow tubes
Of time.
Such power
Such weakness
Such overweening pride.
Here
Is the craft of violence
So deftly practiced:
Its rich reactive brilliance
Flows across the playing fields
Like prowess on the prowl: cursed.
Mars, the bringer of war
Sits alone
Hearth and home beyond his ken.
The fuse is lit
The dark implosion soon aligned
Within the planet’s stark demise:
So many lonely men
January 2023
On that twisting, redundant coil
The “y”
That still receives no answer
Enjambment coiling round
The hollow tubes
Of time.
Such power
Such weakness
Such overweening pride.
Here
Is the craft of violence
So deftly practiced:
Its rich reactive brilliance
Flows across the playing fields
Like prowess on the prowl: cursed.
Mars, the bringer of war
Sits alone
Hearth and home beyond his ken.
The fuse is lit
The dark implosion soon aligned
Within the planet’s stark demise:
So many lonely men
January 2023
