Beholding

Frondling of new Spring
inner quiet
dismal passage
time extremism
not soothing
Industry in
welding words
and quickness
in their fade
noticing rooting
with regard
just a day passes
of all men
their systems and ways;

Things work
but are broken by
bacterial underthings
and over-things
all a'play ...

Play puts play
in action, and
discovers
natural setting of
mistakes, and
assumptions of
carefully
planned discourse;

Remorseful buds
limit the inheritance
of property to
a succession of heirs,
arguing for a newer diagram
that academics may photograph

Lent
rooms for huge
governments detailed
in movement upon movement
of fad upon fad
spoke of because
we call the latest prophet
TIME, our judge, who has
favored as always
immaturity, and degradation.

Should you live, frondling,
in decadence ocurring sadly
next to you
frondling of a new Spring?



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (1977)